Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC Project Discussion

2013-05-30 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
OK. Then a "roster" represents the distribution list for a "feed" of outgoing messages. The "mailinglist" represents the reception point(s) for the incoming messages and the directives for handling the processing of those messages. The thing that hasn't been addressed is how an individual recipi

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC Project Discussion

2013-05-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 20, 2013, at 06:39 AM, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: >It is easy to say "He will receive an email about the tasks done in his >absence". However, how do you propose to compose that email? Where and how >is the information used to construct the email stored while the moderator is >on vacation.

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC Project Discussion

2013-05-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 20, 2013, at 11:31 AM, varun sharma wrote: >So, I think the overlapping vacation may be handled in two ways: >1. Follow up the procedure as written above , i.e: If there are multiple >moderators going on vacation for same span of time, then the tasks will >remain pending in their ToDo list

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC Project Discussion

2013-05-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 19, 2013, at 10:08 PM, varun sharma wrote: >2. The second thing is some moderators might be interested in knowing >the administrative changes done in their absence. So they should >receive a summary of the tasks done(eg. users added) in their absence >once they come back from vacation.This

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC Project Discussion

2013-05-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 19, 2013, at 11:26 AM, varun sharma wrote: >I think the owner or moderators also should be allowed to use the in vacation >suspension of mails from the mailing lists they moderate or own, given all >the administrative tasks that need their attention must be added to their >ToDo queue. One

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC Project Discussion

2013-05-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 17, 2013, at 04:58 PM, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: >Would it be easier if we just treated owners and moderators as a couple of >additional mailing lists. > >In other words, for list x...@example.com, we also have virtual lists >@example.com and @example.com Where the list >names are accessib

[Mailman-Developers] Concgrats and Welcome GSoC Students

2013-05-30 Thread Florian Fuchs
Dear fellow Mailmaners, dear GSoC 2013 students, let's congratulate Abhilash Raj and Manish Gill for their successful Google Summer of Code 2013 applications! Abhilash's project will be the integration of OpenPGP into the mailman core. Manish will be working on a public facing, authenticated RES