[Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2015 :Mailman Client written in Javascript

2015-03-21 Thread Abhishek Kumar
Hi, I am Abhishek (irc: abhishek17) and i have submitted my proposal on the melange. Please provide your valuable feedback and suggestions to improve it..! -- Thanks, Abhishek Kumar CSE, IIIT Hyderabad ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list

[Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: Anonymous Users Dashboards

2015-03-18 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Sreyanth writes: Hi Terri others I am Sreyantha Chary (you can call me Sreyanth), a current MBA student at IIM Ahmedabad. I have been a GSoC student for the past 2 years and would like to hack on Mailman this year. I am interested in implementing the *anonymous *users feature and

[Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: Anonymous Users Dashboards

2015-03-18 Thread Sreyanth
Hi Terri others I am Sreyantha Chary (you can call me Sreyanth), a current MBA student at IIM Ahmedabad. I have been a GSoC student for the past 2 years and would like to hack on Mailman this year. I am interested in implementing the *anonymous *users feature and dashboards for

[Mailman-Developers] Gsoc 2015 : A Dashboard for Admins/Owners/Moderators

2015-03-15 Thread Heshan Jayasinghe
Hi, I am Heshan Jayasinghe.I am 2nd year undergraduate in University of Moratuwa,Srilanka.I am an Open source developer and i really like to contribute your company in this GSOC 2015.In my university i did several android base applications.and noSQL (RDF) based web applications.i am good at in

[Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2015: Seeking Information

2015-03-15 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Nakul Gulati writes: After reading about mailman and going through the code base and scope of different ideas, my interest align with the project *Mailman Client written in Javascript* in particular. Hence, I'd like to pursue it as part of GSOC 2015. Sounds good to me. See

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Gsoc 2015 : A Dashboard for Admins/Owners/Moderators

2015-03-15 Thread Abhilash Raj
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Heshan, On Monday 16 March 2015 01:35 AM, Heshan Jayasinghe wrote: Hi, I am Heshan Jayasinghe.I am 2nd year undergraduate in University of Moratuwa,Srilanka.I am an Open source developer and i really like to contribute your company in this GSOC

[Mailman-Developers] Gsoc 2015 : A Dashboard for Admins/Owners/Moderators

2015-03-15 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Heshan Jayasinghe writes: I am interested on your project A Dashboard for Admins/Owners/Moderators.I read your Documentation given about these projectI want to know the path I should follow to contribute your company. Start by (re)reading the ideas page, paying specific attention to the

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2015: Seeking Information

2015-03-13 Thread Abhilash Raj
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Nakul, On Saturday 14 March 2015 05:50 AM, Nakul Gulati wrote: Hi, I am a undergraduate student pursuing Computer Science from NIIT University, Neemrana, India. Currently in my 3rd year I'm expected to graduate in summer 2016. I have

[Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2015: Seeking Information

2015-03-13 Thread Nakul Gulati
Hi, I am a undergraduate student pursuing Computer Science from NIIT University, Neemrana, India. Currently in my 3rd year I'm expected to graduate in summer 2016. I have experience in working on a variety of projects and have a wide skill set with skill proficiency ranging from moderate to

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015 Projects

2015-03-12 Thread Abhilash Raj
Hi Alangi, On 12 March 2015 at 01:07, Alangi Derick alangider...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am Alangi Derick Ndimnain, a third year student in the department of computer engineering, University of Buea, Cameroon. This means i am from Africa and Cameroon to be precise. I am very pleased to

[Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015 - Better handling of list styles

2015-03-11 Thread Alangi Derick
Hello, I already introduced myself on the mailing list. I am also interested in working on Better handling of list styles project for mailman. I have had a big problem on posting styles when organisations use mailman and i understand the stress involved if a particular posting style is set

[Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015 Projects

2015-03-11 Thread Alangi Derick
Hello, I am Alangi Derick Ndimnain, a third year student in the department of computer engineering, University of Buea, Cameroon. This means i am from Africa and Cameroon to be precise. I am very pleased to share with you what i have concerning this years GSoC 2015. Going through the list

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2015 :Mailman Client written in Javascript

2015-03-06 Thread Andrew Stuart
Hi Abhishek, If you are going to do this sort of development you will need to become familiar with tools for observing the traffic being sent from the web browser to the web server. What sort of operating system are you using? Right clicking in a browser window that you run your JavaScript

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2015 :Mailman Client written in Javascript

2015-03-06 Thread Abhishek Kumar
Hi, Thanks for the suggestions Andrew. Using ngrep i found that i was using authentication key in header instead of authorization. After correcting it, the js client runs successfully..! :) I have tried curl in past and will see how it could be helpful to me while working on this task. Now that

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2015 :Mailman Client written in Javascript

2015-03-06 Thread Andrew Stuart
Hi Abhishek I suggest you find who the mentors are for your project and ask them, mentors are listed on this page: http://wiki.list.org/DEV/Google_Summer_of_Code_2015#Mailman_Client_written_in_Javascript Regarding how to build a JavaScript SDK. For inspiration perhaps you might start by

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2015 :Mailman Client written in Javascript

2015-03-06 Thread Abhishek Kumar
Hi, Sorry for the same last 2 mails. Last one was sent accidentally. Are there any ideas regarding the issues i mentioned in them..? Abhilash..? On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 2:38 AM, Abhishek Kumar abhi170...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Thanks Aanand and Abhilash for the help and suggestions. I need

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2015 :Mailman Client written in Javascript

2015-03-05 Thread Abhishek Kumar
Hi, Thanks Aanand and Abhilash for the help and suggestions. Issues are solve now. I need further assistance: I tried to write the connection class's rough javascript code. It works if i bypass the authentication. I have encoded/decoded the authentication data correctly ( as seemed from

[Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2015: Willingness to contribute

2015-03-05 Thread Umang Arora
Hello I am Umang Arora, pursuing my Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Engineering from IIIT DELHI India. I am really interested in working on the project titled “* A Dashboard for Admins/Owners/Moderators” *and* “Subscriber profile pages” * under your idea page for GSOC 2015. I am

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2015: Willingness to contribute

2015-03-05 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
Hi Umang, I would suggest setting up mailman would be a good start http://gnu-mailman.readthedocs.org/en/latest/src/mailman/docs/WebUIin5.html and from there your can to jump beginner friendly bugs on launchpad. To get a better insight into mailman system, you can also go through their

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2015: Willingness to contribute

2015-03-05 Thread Abhilash Raj
Hi Umang, On Friday 06 March 2015 12:57 AM, Umang Arora wrote: Hello I am Umang Arora, pursuing my Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Engineering from IIIT DELHI India. I am really interested in working on the project titled “* A Dashboard for Admins/Owners/Moderators” *and*

[Mailman-Developers] Gsoc 2015

2015-03-04 Thread Manav Mittal
Hello , I am Manav Mittal from India planning to participate this year under GNU Mailman for coming gsoc 2015. I have 3 years experience with HTML,CSS ,Javascript, PHP, Java,MySQL. I thoroughly went through your project lists and i found these project very interesting- - *A dashboard for

[Mailman-Developers] Gsoc 2015

2015-03-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Manav Mittal writes: - *A dashboard for Admins/Operators/Moderators* Two years ago Shanu Salunke did a GSoC project for Systers implementing a dashboard for users (MI standing for Mailman Interface, I think). It might be useful to look at her code for UI ideas. Note that her code spoke

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2015 :Mailman Client written in Javascript

2015-03-04 Thread Abhilash Raj
Hi Abhishek, On Wednesday 04 March 2015 11:35 AM, Abhishek Kumar wrote: Hi Abhilash, I am trying to setup mailman with the guide in the WebUIin5 http://gnu-mailman.readthedocs.org/en/latest/src/mailman/docs/WebUIin5.html: and i got this error on running mailman start : --- Starting

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2015 :Mailman Client written in Javascript

2015-03-04 Thread Abhishek Kumar
Hi, Using the viurtualenv, i was able to complete the setup guide. But i am required to login at http://localhost:8000/ and there is no option to register. So i logged in using Mozilla persona. But even after that i am not getting any options to create domains and list as described here

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2015 :Mailman Client written in Javascript

2015-03-04 Thread Abhilash Raj
On Wednesday 04 March 2015 02:01 PM, Abhishek Kumar wrote: Hi, Using the viurtualenv, i was able to complete the setup guide. But i am required to login at http://localhost:8000/ and there is no option to register. So i logged in using Mozilla persona. But even after that i am not getting

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-03-03 Thread Ankush Sharma
Thanks. Barry for the detailed explanation. I will surely have a look on that part as you mentioned. Thanks, Ankush Sharma github.com/black-perl On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Barry Warsaw ba...@list.org wrote: On Feb 27, 2015, at 01:02 PM, Ankush Sharma B.Tech. Electronics Engg, IIT(BHU),

[Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015

2015-03-03 Thread Norbert Bajkó
Hello, I would like to inquire after some GSoC project. Especially: - A Dashboard for Admins/Owners/Moderators - Subscriber profile pages - GitHub/development tools integration - Shared bookmarking toolkit Can you tell me some more detail about each of them? What are the exact

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2015 :Mailman Client written in Javascript

2015-03-03 Thread Abhilash Raj
Hi Abhishek, On Tuesday 03 March 2015 02:51 PM, Abhishek Kumar wrote: Hi, I am Abhishek and am interested in the participating in GSOC with the org. I am good at data-structures and algorithms and have worked with C, C++, Javascript, Python and PHP. I have an internship experience at

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015

2015-03-03 Thread Abhilash Raj
Hi Norbert, On Tuesday 03 March 2015 06:09 PM, Norbert Bajkó wrote: Hello, I would like to inquire after some GSoC project. Especially: - A Dashboard for Admins/Owners/Moderators - Subscriber profile pages - GitHub/development tools integration - Shared bookmarking toolkit

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2015 :Mailman Client written in Javascript

2015-03-03 Thread Abhishek Kumar
Hi Abhilash, I am trying to setup mailman with the guide in the WebUIin5 http://gnu-mailman.readthedocs.org/en/latest/src/mailman/docs/WebUIin5.html: and i got this error on running mailman start : --- Starting Mailman's master runner /usr/bin/python3.4: can't open file '/usr/bin/master': [Errno

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2015 :Mailman Client written in Javascript

2015-03-03 Thread Abhishek Kumar
Hi, Also i have to run python setup.py develop with sudo. Without it, i am getting permission denied errors. On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Abhishek Kumar abhi170...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Abhilash, I am trying to setup mailman with the guide in the WebUIin5

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-03-03 Thread Ankush Sharma
Yes, Stephen also mentioned about its separate working and not being able to get integrated with mailman. But, I guess it would be cool if this metrics project can be integrated with postorius or hyperkitty as you mentioned. Thanks, Ankush Sharma github.com/black-perl On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at

[Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: We're in...

2015-03-02 Thread Florian Fuchs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, just a quick FYI: Mailman has been accepted into GSoC 2015. \o/ Thanks to everyone who contributed ideas and/or helped with wiki gardening! I'll follow up with a road map for the coming weeks tomorrow. To everyone who has volunteered

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: We're in...

2015-03-02 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 02, 2015, at 10:35 PM, Florian Fuchs wrote: just a quick FYI: Mailman has been accepted into GSoC 2015. \o/ Thanks to everyone who contributed ideas and/or helped with wiki gardening! Really fantastic news! Thanks everyone who has participated so far, and I'm looking forward to a great

[Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2015: Message queue based email archiver

2015-03-02 Thread Andrew Stuart
The wiki says: Hyperkitty is mailman's official archiver, however it would be a good idea to add an alternative to it based on message queues, either publish-subscribe or a fifo message queue. Florian/Aurelien, I’m curious to understand what would be the benefit of message queue based

[Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: We're in...

2015-03-02 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Wow! Great news! I didn't really expect this (I thought we'd be under Python's umbrella again). Congratulations to The Management (for those viewers just tuning in, that's basically Terri and Florian, and Meflin The Whip [1] ;-) on the GSoC side, and Barry Mr. 3 and Mark Mr. 2 on the

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-28 Thread Andrew Stuart
There’s a bug at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1423756 Requesting domainowner and serverowner thanks On 26 Feb 2015, at 10:10 am, Barry Warsaw ba...@list.org wrote: On Feb 25, 2015, at 04:12 PM, Andrew Stuart wrote: I’m looking forward to being able to set and get domainowner and

[Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015 aspirant: Github/development tools integration

2015-02-28 Thread Karan Dev
Hi Developers, I am final year computer science engineering student from UPTU. I want to contribute to the organization by becoming a part of GSoC 2015. I know C/C++, Python, Javascript. I went through project ideas of Mailman and found Github/development tools integration interesting. Please

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015 aspirant: Github/development tools integration

2015-02-28 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
Hi Karan, I would suggest setting up mailman would be a good start and from there your can to jump beginner friendly bugs on launchpad. To get a better insight into mailman system, you can also go through their documentation

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 02/27/2015 12:24 AM, Terri Oda wrote: It's not that it's a bad feature in isolation. But there are so *many* potential features for Mailman, and I'd like to see ideas that are less socially problematic get implemented first. And there are many customer relations managements systems

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 27, 2015, at 01:02 PM, Ankush Sharma B.Tech. Electronics Engg, IIT(BHU), Varanasi (U.P.), INDIA wrote: A personalized mailing list will allow mailman users to send personalized emails to all the list members from a common email template. Almost all the pieces are already there to support

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-27 Thread Terri Oda
On 2015-02-27 1:06 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Ankush Sharma B.Tech. Electronics Engg, IIT(BHU), Varanasi (U.P.), INDIA writes: I was wondering if there is a sort of tool that generates summaries for mailing list activity and charts like number of users, number of active users,

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-27 Thread Terri Oda
Honestly, I don't love this idea. I would be technically feasible with VERP, but it edges into features that are very popular for people sending spam. On 2015-02-26 11:32 PM, Ankush Sharma B.Tech. Electronics Engg, IIT(BHU), Varanasi (U.P.), INDIA wrote: How about having personalized

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-27 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Ankush Sharma B.Tech. Electronics Engg, IIT(BHU), Varanasi (U.P.), INDIA writes: I was wondering if there is a sort of tool that generates summaries for mailing list activity and charts like number of users, number of active users, etc. Would something like this be a good idea or is it

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-27 Thread Ankush Sharma B.Tech. Electronics Engg, IIT(BHU), Varanasi (U.P.), INDIA
I realize the feature I proposed earlier is more of a commercial feature and might not be be so useful for Mailman as you mentioned it's pitfalls. Are there other directions that I should think in? I am good with Python, Javascript, HTML5. I was wondering if there is a sort of tool that

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-27 Thread Terri Oda
I am quite aware of the definition of spam (in fact, I have a master's thesis on the subject). What I'm concerned about is that in the past, mail merges (which is what you're describing) is a feature that has often been requested by people doing marketing lists. It's not a subset of users

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-27 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Ankush Sharma B.Tech. Electronics Engg, IIT(BHU), Varanasi (U.P.), INDIA writes: Spamming would be the case when you are sending the emails to people who don't want to receive such emails. While if we control the email variable to take value from the set of emails of the list members only

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-26 Thread Ankush Sharma B.Tech. Electronics Engg, IIT(BHU), Varanasi (U.P.), INDIA
How about having personalized announcement mailing lists ? A personalized mailing list will allow mailman users to send personalized emails to all the list members from a common email template. Suppose I am the manager of a company and I need to ask all the workers for a meeting. I want each of

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-26 Thread Ankush Sharma B.Tech. Electronics Engg, IIT(BHU), Varanasi (U.P.), INDIA
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Terri Oda te...@toybox.ca wrote: Honestly, I don't love this idea. I would be technically feasible with VERP, I don't know about VERP. I will surely have a look. but it edges into features that are very popular for people sending spam. Spamming would be

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-25 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 25, 2015, at 04:12 PM, Andrew Stuart wrote: I’m looking forward to being able to set and get domainowner and serverowner (or siteowner or whatever its called). It will allow me to delete lots of code and there’s no greater joy than deleting code. Are you anticipating this will be in V3.0?

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 24, 2015, at 07:53 AM, Chris Nulk wrote: Also, I believe I remember a goal for Mailman v3 was to have one instance of Mailman be able to host lists for multiple domains. Yes, but not on physically distinct hosts. Or in other words, yes MM3 supports virtual domains Given that information

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-24 Thread Chris Nulk
On 2/23/2015 8:08 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Andrew Stuart writes: I am currently associating users, not addresses with these permissions, so your suggestion is compatible with my stuff. +1 on associating users with permissions (plus the validation Barry recommends). site owner

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-24 Thread Andrew Stuart
I’m looking forward to being able to set and get domainowner and serverowner (or siteowner or whatever its called). It will allow me to delete lots of code and there’s no greater joy than deleting code. Are you anticipating this will be in V3.0? thanks as On 24 Feb 2015, at 11:42 am, Barry

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Andrew Stuart writes: I am currently associating users, not addresses with these permissions, so your suggestion is compatible with my stuff. +1 on associating users with permissions (plus the validation Barry recommends). site owner does sound more appropriate than server owner. Users

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-21 Thread Andrew Stuart
Do you think this has to be integrated into the core for 3.0? I'd still prefer to keep it separate for better experimentation and testing. if: there was an “application data” table: resource_type | resource_id |

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-21 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: On Feb 20, 2015, at 07:25 PM, Andrew Stuart wrote: It’s workable as a part of the auth proxy but feels like it would fit better in the Mailman core database since the data is so tightly bound to Mailman resources. It’ll need an effective replication mechanism to

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 20, 2015, at 07:25 PM, Andrew Stuart wrote: It’s workable as a part of the auth proxy but feels like it would fit better in the Mailman core database since the data is so tightly bound to Mailman resources. It’ll need an effective replication mechanism to ensure consistency with Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-20 Thread Florian Fuchs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 20.02.2015 um 06:46 schrieb Terri Oda: Thanks all! I've put up stuff for the ideas I could describe well enough off the top of my head. Thank you Terri! Also, mentors, I've listed a few likely key people beside each project idea, but some

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-20 Thread Andrew Stuart
[1] The additional user info bit possibly re-raises the big question of a central user data store for all Mailman components, which will clearly not be solved as part of a GSoC project, especially a beginner-friendly one. But we do already have a little bit of info, the user's email

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-19 Thread Terri Oda
Thanks all! I've put up stuff for the ideas I could describe well enough off the top of my head. Also, mentors, I've listed a few likely key people beside each project idea, but some of them are just a generic anyone can help with this -- if any of these particularly interests you, please

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-17 Thread Abhilash Raj
How about domain-wide settings for default list styles or maybe set a default list style for an entire mailman installation through Postorius? That could make the work of list-admins easy if they manage too many lists and don't want to do repetitive change in each and every list. Additionally

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-17 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 18, 2015, at 12:24 AM, Abhilash Raj wrote: How about domain-wide settings for default list styles or maybe set a default list style for an entire mailman installation through Postorius? That could make the work of list-admins easy if they manage too many lists and don't want to do

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

2015-02-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 02/17/2015 04:03 AM, Terri Oda wrote: Hi all, In my role as org admin for Python, I'm trying to make sure we have more beginner-friendly ideas on the GSoC pages, and Mailman's among the groups that doesn't have any. How embarrassing for me as a Mailman developer. ;) It's also a problem