Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC '15 : Student applications start today

2015-03-19 Thread Abhilash Raj
Few other points: * You need to submit your proposals to GNU Mailman organization and *not* Python Software Foundation like last year. We have been selected as a separate organization this year. * The application template is up on melange, please have a look before you submit your

[Mailman-Developers] GSOC'15: Improving styles for lists

2015-03-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
prakhar joshi writes: I am thinking of storing the styles in the database by creating a table for the styles in the db Mailman's databases are not relational dbs, they're object-oriented. Underneath the objects are stored in relational dbs and managed by an ORM (SQLAlchemy), of course,

[Mailman-Developers] Fine grained subscription control, scaling, noise, relevancy, subscription rules, dynamic lists

2015-03-19 Thread Andrew Stuart
Refer to the bottom of this email for some previous quotes from @barry on this topic. I’ve also had off list discussions with Barry in which he has mentioned this same topic so it seems to have some previous thought gone into it. I’m wanting to raise the topic of “fine grained subscription

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC'15: Improving styles for lists

2015-03-19 Thread prakhar joshi
hi, so we should have templates already created in a folder with default values of the attributes in it. the templates will be of BASIC OPERATION, BOUNCES etc. and under each of the template we will gonna have attributes for it and then we can apply these templates on the list and even user

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC'15: Improving styles for lists

2015-03-19 Thread prakhar joshi
what if we create separate tables for each class in the mailman/src/mailman/styles/base.py and store the name and their attributes in it with user_name with it. I think the attributes for the classes defined already will be fixed? So now if we feel the requirement of including new things to style

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC'15: Improving styles for lists

2015-03-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
prakhar joshi writes: what if we create separate tables for each class in the mailman/src/mailman/styles/base.py and store the name and their attributes in it with user_name with it. Who are these users (subscribers? admins?) and why do you want to associate styles with users? Please use

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GitHub/development tools integration project Gsoc'15

2015-03-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Sumana Harihareswara writes: http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCStudentGuide/ http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2013/05/12/1 and http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2014/02/26/0 helpful in guiding you. Thanks for the blog references! But these are generic, do you have anything more about the

[Mailman-Developers] Invitation to adopt pytest month

2015-03-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
This is spam. Don't do it without checking with the list owner (coursemailman-developers-ow...@python.org) first. Brianna Laugher writes: [spam deleted] ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org

[Mailman-Developers] Use of the mailing list during the application period

2015-03-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Hi! First, let me thank you all for your applications. I was a little worried when were approved as an org ourselves, but we've got a bunch of good ideas and nicely done applications here, so we aren't going to have trouble filling our slots, I think. Second, I don't necessarily speak for the

Re: [Mailman-Developers] MIME footers

2015-03-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Murray S. Kucherawy writes: The difference between this idea and l= is that there's still a signature covering the added part, that of the MLM. No, there isn't, not when it leaves the poster's MTA. This is the same for your proposal and for l=. People have learned to deal with top-posting,

[Mailman-Developers] Message threading - requesting some wisdom

2015-03-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Andrew Stuart writes: I assume a great deal of thought has gone into message threading and how it works. Is there anyone willing to share the basics with me - specifically as it relates to Mailman and related projects? Currently Mailman and Postorius don't care at all. HyperKitty has its

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GitHub/development tools integration project Gsoc'15

2015-03-19 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Hello. I am the person who originally wrote up this idea. I am not going to mentor it; I am not skilled enough at working with Mailman, and I have other time commitments, so I will not be mentoring this or any other Google Summer of Code student or idea. On 18/03/15 12:48, Stephen J. Turnbull

[Mailman-Developers] Dynamic Sublist Proposal Queries

2015-03-19 Thread Pranjal Yadav
Hello I recently submitted my proposal for Dynamic Sublists, since I haven't had much discussion on this idea with mentors it would be nice to have some reviews. I request Terri, Barry and Steve to have a look whenever they find suitable and other mentors can also help me if they wish too. There

Re: [Mailman-Developers] MIME footers

2015-03-19 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: It's certainly the case that this proposal only deals well with footers. The specific algorithm is to construct a MIME tree and sign parts of it; specifically, sign all of it, and then verify all of what

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GitHub/development tools integration project Gsoc'15

2015-03-19 Thread Florian Fuchs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 18.03.2015 um 16:29 schrieb Prabhanshu Abhishek: 2)the gsoc idea page says that it is necessary to fix at least one bug, but i have not been able to find some bug that is beginner friendly and related to my project, can you give me some bug to

[Mailman-Developers] Message threading - requesting some wisdom

2015-03-19 Thread Andrew Stuart
Hi folks I assume a great deal of thought has gone into message threading and how it works. Is there anyone willing to share the basics with me - specifically as it relates to Mailman and related projects? There is of course plenty of information on google which I am researching including the

[Mailman-Developers] GitHub/Development tools integration project Gsoc'15

2015-03-19 Thread Prabhanshu Abhishek
Hi, I am Prabhanshu Abhishek, second year undergraduate student at Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), studying Computer Science and Engineering. I am very much interested in the project GitHub/Development tools integration under Gsoc'15. I have given much thought on how it can be