Hello everybody!
Our current GNU Mailman logos were designed by the Dragon De Monsyne many
years ago. They have served us exceedingly well, but with the coming of
Mailman 3, we've decided it's time our logos got a face lift. So we're
opening up a new logo contest to the Mailman and GNU communities. We invite
your creative and inspiring designs!
Details of the contest and submission guidelines are available here:
http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/NewLogo
Submissions will be open until February 28, 2010, and is open to everyone, so
feel free to forward this announcement. Please contact the Mailman Steering
Committee at mailman-cabal(a)python.org with any questions.
Enjoy,
-Barry
Dear Developers,
My task is to enhance the web admin interface for mailman-2.1.x, requested
by one of my customers. As a programmer, I learned that I need to add some
lines of code into Mailman/Cgi/admin.py (or listinfo.py).
I also learned that there are upcoming versions (2.2 and 3.0) which may have
a different (completely rewritten) interface. As far as I can understand the
current version (2.1.x) can be a widely used one for several years, so my
changes will be fruitful for the community for a few years or so.
I'd like to add the following new features. My customer is running 100+
different lists with 500+ users. So my customer asks me to give a web
interface for the following:
* Remove a given user from all lists. If a user to be removed is a list
admin, then a warning should come instead.
* Change the email address of a given user in all lists.
I know that these requests could be done via the command line interface, but
my customer would like to maintain these task via web.
My questions to you are:
* If my code is of quality, will it be a part of the mainstream code (from
2.1.14 or so)?
* Is admin.py the right place for such an enhancement?
Thank you for your answer in advance.
Yours,
Zoltan Kovacs
http://particio.com/english/
Hi... is there any possibility a post with a bad password
could return 401 instead of 200... that way fail2ban would
automatically block bots that try to hack list manager
passwords.
Mark
Hi Mailman devs,
As a list admin I would find it hugely helpful if I could batch-edit
users' topic subscriptions.
========
Context
I use mailman to administer mailing lists for a 400-member community
of a college dorm (including students and staff). Many of the
announcements aren't applicable to the entire community, but instead
to particular subgroups (e.g. sophomores, students living on the
third floor, students enrolled in a math class).
Our current approach is to set up multiple lists -- one main list to
which everyone is subscribed ('announce') and then another list for
each subgroup (e.g. 'announce-sophomores', 'announce-third-floor',
'announce-math'). This is, of course, inelegant at best and more
typically a major hassle for all involved.
I'd like to be able to use topics to filter messages to the
appropriate set of users, but as far as I can tell this would require
adjusting each user's topics by hand. (It's not realistic to ask
members to set up their own topic subscriptions.) If there was a
batch mechanism for adjusting users' topic subscriptions this would
be much easier.
========
Potential Solution
I'm not particularly fussy about how the batch editing would be
accomplished, but here's what I came up with that would seem to
require little modification of mailman's current interface (I'm using
2.1.9):
On the mass-subscribe page (mailman/admin/foo/members/add), permit
input to the 'subscribees' textarea with lines of the form
'address(a)domain.com topic1 topic2'
which would subscribe the address to the list if it wasn't already,
and further subscribe the address to the listed topics.
Similarly, the mass unsubscribe page (mailman/admin/foo/members/
remove), this input would unsubscribe the address from _only_ the
listed topics, but not from the list as a whole.
=========
Would love to get others' thoughts on this feature.
Thanks for your consideration!
Best regards,
Ben
PS I'm new to the list -- apologies if this has been covered before
and my archive search wasn't sufficiently thorough.
Hi,
> Hi there,
>
> I'm Florian, a web developer from Berlin. I have been subscribed to
> the mailing list for a year now, but haven't posted anything so far.
> So first things first: Hi to you all!
>
> I was, however, present at last year's Pycon MM-sprint (and will be
> this year), so here's what I recall, along with some thoughts:
>
> I guess the framework would be one of the first things to decide
> about. At last year's sprint, we talked about using Pylons and genshi
> as a template engine. On the other hand: Pylons' standard template
> engine, Mako, seems to be a lot faster while having a similar set of
> features (i18n, ...). Being relatively new to Python I personally
> don't have a preferred framework (Pylons seemed fine, though...). But
> I am a fan of the MVC pattern because of the separation of logic and
> layout. So using something like Pylons or Django seems like a good
> idea to me.
>
> On the Javascript side, I would recommend jQuery because of its
> performance, small size, tons of plugins and general awesomeness.
>
I already did a lot of work using django, jquery, and some python
libraries. All is accessible on :
http://dev.arbrows.org
We already put it in beta production at : http://archives.rezo.net.
The main goal of this project, is to have a "generic" webapp for all
mailing list managers(mailman, sympa, ...), and it should be a good idea
to create an open REST API.
We have a lot of ideas for arbrows futur, but well I have not really
time atm to work full time on this project, i'm walking slowly.
If you're interested to help me/us, please contact me, it'll be a pleasure.
Bests,
--
Nahuel ANGELINETTI
Hello folks,
I'd like to officially kickoff the Mailman 3 web user interface project. I
want to invite all interested developers and designers to join in on helping
to produce an awesome, modern user interface for the next version of Mailman.
I believe we have enough infrastructure in the core Mailman 3 engine to
support at least initial work on the WUI. The architecture we've laid out is
solid I believe. The Mailman 3 engine provides a REST HTTP server exposing a
full-access administrative interface. The WUI will be a separate optional
process that sites can run, which communicates over REST to manage security
and provide external HTTP/HTML access to Mailman functionality for users, list
administrators, and site administrators.
All discussions about the WUI can be conducted on the mailman-developers
mailing list. The wiki can be used to collect artifacts such as design notes,
decisions, and progress:
http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Web+Interface
(Contact me or mailman-cabal(a)python.org off-line if you need write access.
The wiki is fairly locked down due to spam.)
The Launchpad project for the Mailman WUI is here:
https://launchpad.net/mailmanweb
but there is currently very little there at the moment. Remember too that we
are trying to gather critical mass to sprint on the WUI at Pycon 2010:
http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/PyCon+Sprint+2010
Enjoy,
-Barry
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:33:24 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>On 11:59 AM, John Fitzsimons wrote:
< snip >
>> Sounds good. Is this instead of the news server integration ? Being
>> done prior to that ? Or are they being developed concurrently ?
>> Is this meant to be a Mailman "alternative" to CPanel ? Or are you
>> thinking of adding such things as posting to an email list via a
>> Mailman web page ? In other words an (optional ?) Mailman
>> created web forum.
< snip >
>And no, this is independent of any possible NNTP support and is probably
>happening first
Okay, though I expect that if a news server option were offered it
might include a "common" database for email/news/web posts.
> (although in open source, you never know what might
>happen), and no it is not a "Mailman "alternative" to CPanel" whatever
>that might be.
As a windows user the CPanel interface is all that I am familiar with.
>It is a redesign of the existing MM 2.1 web interface
Okay, I haven't seen that.
>(most of which is virtually unchanged by cPanel). I.e. all of the
>existing list admin, admindb, options, etc. web interface that you see
>in your cPanel installation is virtually unchanged from standard Mailman
>2.1. This is a redesign of that interface for MM 3.
Sounds good. Particularly if one has a "Delete (or hide ?) archive"
option. :-)
>The ability to post from a web page could be part of this if there is
>enough interest.
Though I don't like web forums many people do. I am sure that a lot
of people would like a web forum interface if it were offered as an
"option".
For many people "Web Mail" is a handy way to check what is in their
"home" mailbox when on the road, or at work.
The current web access to Mailman archives is very close already to a
web forum IMO. All that needs to be added is a "reply" button and a
"new post" button.
IF that page were offered, as a html page that administrators could
alter, it would enable them to make things "prettier".
Regards, John.
Let me state that I am not a IT person, so some of my questions/comments may
not be the most appropriate lingo that is used by you folks. It is also very
likely that my issues/ideas have been raised before, though I have not been
able to find it in the archives. I have been moderating non-commercial
mailing lists (initially majordomo and then mailman) since the mid 1990s.
One of the biggest issues has been in the moderation of posts on these
discussion lists. Usually, we have had a set of volunteer moderators who
review the posts for spam, obscenity, personal attacks etc before they get
approved for distribution. While stuff like spam, obscenity etc are for the
most part obvious and can be auto filtered using various options, the
problem remains that the issue of more mundane posts are still subject to
the moderator's bias. Besides being subjective, it can be many, many hours
before a post gets approved, which hampers the continuity and spontaneity
of the posts.
An alternate approach to moderation could be via a "user reputation score"
as is often found in many web based discussion forums. A person with a
higher user reputation score could have fewer restrictions posed on him, in
terms of the number of posts (say per unit of time) without moderation,
before he gets flagged for manual moderation. At this stage, it is not my
intent to propose an a specific mathematical algorithm, but rather to bring
out general concepts.
The issue of course is how would a "user reputation score" be determined? I
would think it would be composed of a variety of components such as: (in no
particular order)
1) Feedback scores as determined by the general mailing list population. The
feature could be embedded into an email to allow collective input from the
reader base. This will automatically provide a feedback loop to poor
quality posters to either reign in their posts or suffer a demotion in their
posting rights via the pre-defined algorithm. Furthermore, it will be based
on the fopinions of the collective masses, rather than that of the
moderator.
2) Verified identity/open ID: I understand that open ID is one of the
features being considered for a future release of mailman. Individuals with
larger networks on sites such as facebook etc could be given a higher
starting reputation score as opposed to a ID that has little or no prior
history or network to back that person's identity. This will help reduce the
possibility of fraudulent posts under freshly created IDs.
I would appreciate some feedback on whether something like this is possible.
Since I am not a programmer, I would not be able to provide technical
support for the development of this code. However, I may be able to get
some funding from a non-profit foundation to get this done.
Regards,
Marlon
I would like to conduct another sprint at the 2010 Python conference in
Atlanta this year. The focus should be on building the new web user interface
for Mailman 3. We'll be doing things like reviewing and choosing
technologies, doing the information layout, building the framework, and
fleshing out the REST API.
Please sign up on this page if you plan on attending.
http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/PyCon+Sprint+2010
(You can also sign up there if you're only able to participate virtually.)
Hope to see you there,
-Barry
On Jan 19, 2010, at 04:17 PM, Marcos wrote:
>Must be the Asturian language in the version 3? :)
>Can you confirm if is it an error, please?
>Thanks very much!
There is currently only English in Mailman 3. We'll begin to do translations
on Launchpad, but I haven't hooked all that up yet. It's on my list. ;)
-Barry