Mailman 3 May 2011 - Mailman-Developers

[GSoC] And they're off!
by Terri Oda 24 May '11

24 May '11

Our summer of code students officially started coding on Monday, and they're already working hard! Those of you interested in following what they're doing more closely should check out their blogs: * Dushyant's been busy going through last year's use cases and figuring out how to get things set up and integrated: http://db42.wordpress.com/ * Drew's been trying to grok the internals of pipermail... and a bit of everything else: http://drodmansoc.blogspot.com/ * Benste's been busy understanding the flow of the interface: http://benste.blogspot.com/search/label/gsoc2011 I particularly like Benste's post with a graphical map of the existing interface. Oi, it's complex! http://benste.blogspot.com/2011/05/mailman-20-existing-menu-structure.html Here's to a great first week! Terri

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Apache configuration: Web Interface for archives in mm3
by Dushyant Bansal 21 May '11

21 May '11

Hi all, I am a gsoc candidate with mailman. I'll be working on archives UI and Search functionality. I'll be blogging about my progress here: http://db42.wordpress.com As my first task is to complete the UI part of the archives, I am trying to get started with pipermail UI. My first question is - Is it possible to view archives via web interface on mailman 3. If yes, can somebody please guide me or provide me hints to make it work. Thanks, Dushyant Bansal

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List Administration Manual r2.1
by C.J. Adams-Collier KF7BMP 16 May '11

16 May '11

Hello folks, I'm putting together a proposal for the use of mailman to a potential client and would like to deliver a complete set of documentation. The List Administration Manual looks like it's nearly finished and just needs a bit of work by a technical writer with experience in the subject area. I've been participating in mailman lists since at least 2002 and administering and moderating successful and unsuccessful lists on my own hardware and others' since 2003. I have also racked up about 9 months of experience developing LaTeX documents during grad school. I still consider myself a bit of a neophyte in this area and will be needing some help setting up the LaTeX environment for compiling the .dvi files. At this point, I installed the python-sphinx package (debian) and copied the /usr/share/sphinx/texinputs/howto.cls it provides to the build directory. I am getting the following error and would appreciate any insight you can provide. Cheers, C.J. $ latex mailman-admin.tex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) entering extended mode (./mailman-admin.tex LaTeX2e <2009/09/24> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh yphenation, loaded. (./howto.cls Document Class: howto 2008/10/18 Document class (Sphinx HOWTO) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))) ! Undefined control sequence. l.7 \release {1.0}

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Converting the Mailman wiki
by Bradley Dean 09 May '11

09 May '11

Greetings folks, I'm part of the new group that John Sullivan of the FSF has brought together to look at migrating the Mailman wiki from Confluence to MoinMoin. We've all just been introduced to each other so we're still very much at the beginning of getting ourselves organised; I've said that I would get in contact with you to ask a few initial questions to help us on our way. So - here we go, and in no particular order: * It looks like confluence supports XML exports for the purpose of backup/restore Have you done this? If the confluence database is in a proprietary format I would this this might be the best way to get at the data. I would also think that it might contain the most complete version of the data (apart from direct access to the database) in terms of preserving meta-data like authorship and version history. * If the export is not available / possible for some reason what would you suggest would be the best approach for us to access the wiki? Do we just need accounts within the wiki, or do we need an account on the hosting server? * A rather open-ended question - but what is your priority in terms of the migration? By this I mean: - which content from the wiki (could be all of it!) - how much meta-data (version history, authors, etc.) - administrative data like users and logins (nb. it may not be possible to bring passwords across) And of course any other comments and suggestions are very welcome. Cheerio, Brad -- Bradley Dean Email: bjdean(a)bjdean.id.au Skype: skype(a)bjdean.id.au Mobile(Aus): +61-413014395 WWW: http://bjdean.id.au/ S/MIME: http://bjdean.id.au/certs/email-public-rsa.txt

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Mailman-Developers May 2011