Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 15 - Interested in contributing to Hyperkitty

2015-03-27 Thread David Udelson
Stephen commented on my proposal that instead of storing all downloads on the server, we should only cache recent ones and build the others on request, because many archives are only downloaded once when they are ported to a different archiver. Since this is in contradiction to the suggestion

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 15 - Interested in contributing to Hyperkitty

2015-03-26 Thread Aurelien Bompard
In my proposal I suggested using any of several asynchronous job queue libraries, such as Celery or Huey. These all use redis as a back-end. Because I have no experience with asynchronous job queues, I'm not sure if this is too much baggage for our purposes. Maybe we just don't want the extra

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 15 - Interested in contributing to Hyperkitty

2015-03-26 Thread David Udelson
I'm already using the jobs infrastructure provided by the django-extensions package: http://django-extensions.readthedocs.org/en/latest/jobs_scheduling.html Cool. I didn't know about this extension, but it looks like it does what we need. So the background process would be its own file in the

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 15 - Interested in contributing to Hyperkitty

2015-03-25 Thread Aurelien Bompard
Hey David, here are my thoughs on the challenges: 1) Determine which messages to include in the mbox. An entire list archive is clearly one choice, but is there also interest in generating mbox files for specific threads, list archieves between specific dates, etc.? Hmm, depending on the

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 15 - Interested in contributing to Hyperkitty

2015-03-25 Thread David Udelson
Thanks for your feedback Aurelien. we'll need something like a task queue and a daemon process or a cron job In my proposal I suggested using any of several asynchronous job queue libraries, such as Celery or Huey. These all use redis as a back-end. Because I have no experience with

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 15 - Interested in contributing to Hyperkitty

2015-03-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
David Udelson writes: Thanks for your feedback Aurelien. we'll need something like a task queue and a daemon process or a cron job In my proposal I suggested using any of several asynchronous job queue libraries, such as Celery or Huey. [...] So far, this is good discussion for

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 15 - Interested in contributing to Hyperkitty

2015-03-25 Thread David Udelson
My proposal has been updated. I apologize if I breached mailing-list ediquette, I'll get the hang of this eventually :) On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull turnb...@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp wrote: David Udelson writes: Thanks for your feedback Aurelien. we'll need

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 15 - Interested in contributing to Hyperkitty

2015-03-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
David Udelson writes: My proposal has been updated. I apologize if I breached mailing-list ediquette, I'll get the hang of this eventually :) No etiquette problem. Those are my personal views about effective use of the mailing list and Melange, respectively. I suspect from past experience

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 15 - Interested in contributing to Hyperkitty

2015-03-24 Thread Aurelien Bompard
I'm interested in contributing to the Hyperkitty archiver. Specifically, it looks like some requested features for Hyperkitty include rss syndication for entire mailing lists/specific users/specific threads, and the ability to view entire threads as plaintext and download that plaintext. We

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 15 - Interested in contributing to Hyperkitty

2015-03-24 Thread David Udelson
I have submitted a proposal on Google Melange. Any feedback I could get about my project constraints would be great! Thanks, David On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Aurelien Bompard aurel...@bompard.org wrote: I'm interested in contributing to the Hyperkitty archiver. Specifically, it looks

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 15 - Interested in contributing to Hyperkitty

2015-03-24 Thread David Udelson
Sent this email to Aurélien's personal email by mistake the first time (sorry Aurélien!). I'll get used to the mailing list evenually There's always been demand for a way to download a list archive as an mbox file This is a feature I am interested in pursuing. From a very (very) high level,

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 15 - Interested in contributing to Hyperkitty

2015-03-23 Thread Terri Oda
On 2015-03-22 10:23 PM, David Udelson wrote: I'm interested in contributing to the Hyperkitty archiver. Specifically, it looks like some requested features for Hyperkitty include rss syndication for entire mailing lists/specific users/specific threads, and the ability to view entire threads as

[Mailman-Developers] GSoC 15 - Interested in contributing to Hyperkitty

2015-03-22 Thread David Udelson
Hello, My name is David Udelson. I am a freshman Computer Science undergraduate at Cornell University. I have 3 years of experience with python under my belt, but I've never contributed to an open source project because I've never known where to begin. I'm hoping GSoC will provide me with