Mailman 3 April 2013 - Mailman-Developers

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman not in GSOC'13 accepted organization
by Terri Oda 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Just like last year, Mailman's going to be participating as a sub-organization under the Python Software Foundation. Unfortunately, this means that our name doesn't show up directly on the org list -- you'll need to click through from python to find us. I'm going to set up some tags so the sub-orgs will be more visible to those searching that list, but it probably won't get done 'till I'm finished work for the day. Terri On 04/09/2013 09:44 AM, Avik Pal wrote: > Hello, > can not see mailman in GSOC'13 accepted organization list, I am > a bit baffled. did it make through this year? > > > > > Avik Pal > Bengal Engineering & Scieence University,Shibpur > github:https://github.com/avikpal > IRC:- irc://freenode/avikp,isnick > twitter:-https://twitter.com/avikpalme > > >

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman not in GSOC'13 accepted organization
by Apoorv Upreti 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

It's participating with Python as its parent organization. Check the gsoc13 page for Python. On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Avik Pal <avikpal.me(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > can not see mailman in GSOC'13 accepted organization list, I am a > bit baffled. did it make through this year? > > > > > Avik Pal > Bengal Engineering & Scieence University,Shibpur > github:https://github.com/avikpal > IRC:- irc://freenode/avikp,isnick > twitter:-https://twitter.com/avikpalme > _______________________________________________ > Mailman-Developers mailing list > Mailman-Developers(a)python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > Searchable Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/apoorvupreti%40gm… > > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > -- -Apoorv

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Mailman not in GSOC'13 accepted organization
by Avik Pal 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Hello, can not see mailman in GSOC'13 accepted organization list, I am a bit baffled. did it make through this year? Avik Pal Bengal Engineering & Scieence University,Shibpur github:https://github.com/avikpal IRC:- irc://freenode/avikp,isnick twitter:-https://twitter.com/avikpalme

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GSOC 2013 : Web Posting Interface
by Peter Markou 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Hello to all the members of the community. My name is Peter Markou and I'm currently running the last year of my university course. I'm deeply interested in implementing the "Web Posting Interface". Since I've maintained and integrated phpBB forum in a european project that I participated about 8 months ago(MUTW - Multinational Undergraduate Team Work http://mutw.praxisnetwork.eu/ ) I think I will be able to offer some additional features to make it a replacement for phpBB. Thanks in advance for your time and looking forward to discuss any further details.

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2013 : Authenticated REST-API in Postorius/Django
by Florian Fuchs 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Hi Rahul, 2013/4/6 Rahul Gaur <rahul.nbg(a)gmail.com> > So , last night I tried my hand on django-rest-framework [0] and TastyPie > [1] as well. > > What I could figure out with my two quick and dirty hands on applications > of both the frameworks , the django-rest-framework is a bit more lengthy ( > but those few extra lines are for the best) when stacked up against > Tastypie. > > I wrote this quick django app and then I tried to write API's for that app > in both the framework.Both the frameworks have there own advantages lets > talk about that. Thanks for creating the two examples! I took a quick look at them and it looks like both frameworks are pretty easy to use if a resource is based on a typical Django model. The Mailman resources OTOH are not retrieved from a database but from another API -- Mailman's core REST API that is only served locally (postorius uses the mailman.client library to access that data). Which of the two frameworks would you consider more flexible if you want to get your data from anything else but a Django DB model (I *think* Tastypie has different classes for model resources and everythingelse-resources)? > *$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/formpost/ -H 'Accept:text/html' > > The Django-rest-frameworks API's returns web browsable representation of > the data by default :) Sounds nice! :-) > So , the confusion I am facing here is that the Postorius is already mature > and stable app and while playing with the two frameworks for API's what I > figured out is that if I opt for django-rest-framework , I would need to > write new Views ? > But if I go for TastyPie , I won't have to touch the existing Views and > write authenticated API's. > > Hence to implement authenticated API's , which one would be better ? Hard to say - judging by how they're used in the examples, both look good. But there are some more things you might want to consider before choosing one: Authentication methods Which auth methods are provided out of the box by the frameworks? And which one(s) would you like to support (OAuth(2), BasicAuth over SSL, ...)? I guess choosing and implementing authentication could become one of the major sub-tasks of that project. Support for Django 1.5 and Python3: At some point in the not so fare future mailman and postorius will be ported to Python3. Django 1.5 already supports Python3, so it would be a bonus point if the rest framework supports it, too (or if their developers are making efforts to do so...). Another idea (not sure if it's a good one): Maybe also take a closer look at Django's class-based views. They are capable of routing requests to the same URI to different dispatch methods, depending on the HTTP method. So that might be also be an interesting option. Cheers Florian

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] Like to participate in GSOC 2013 (GNU Mailman) - Like some ideas proposed in the list (Django, Python)
by Barry Warsaw 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

On Apr 08, 2013, at 04:07 PM, Surya Kasturi wrote: >Since no one had so far configured mailman on windows, I guess, I can try >it (not now but.. later on). Why not we build an executable for windows >(.exe) for users to install? This could take sometime to port and solve >conflicts.. but at the end, it would be superb. IIRC, Mark was using Cygwin at one point. The thing about Windows is that we're using several *nix-isms in process management and possibly in other places. I have no burning desire to try to make these Windows compatible. -Barry

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Mailman participating in GSoC 2013 under the umbrella of the PSF
by Florian Fuchs 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Hi everyone, the list of organizations accepted for GSoC this year has been announced, but apparently google-melange.com suffers from a little "end of countdown" stress and only displays a small number of them. So a quick announcement for those of you currently watching that page: Like last year and the year before, Mailman will participate in GSoC under the umbrella of the Python Software Foundation! Yay...! (Of course it would have been even better had Mailman been accepted as a separate organization, but unfortunately that's not the case. Maybe next year!) So let's have another great three to four months of learning and coding and doing beautiful things! Cheers Florian

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2013 - Introduction and Project Discussion
by Richard Wackerbarth 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Although we would like for MM3 to run on Python 3, I don't think that all of our dependency libraries are ready for that yet. I am running MM under Python 2.7 Richard On Apr 8, 2013, at 3:13 AM, Udit Saxena <saxena.udit(a)gmail.com> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Udit Saxena <saxena.udit(a)gmail.com> > Date: Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:42 PM > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2013 - Introduction and Project > Discussion > To: > > > I'm having problems installing the environment. From the 5 minute guide > installation page: > http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/A+5+minute+guide+to+get+the+Mailman+web+UI… > > my "bin/buildout" from the mailman folder is not able to run. bootstrap.py > runs fine. But I don't know how to go further. > The error says: Exception: failed to run command : "usr/bin/python3.3", > "/tmp/tmpoe01dx", "-q","develop", "-mxN".... > > The same error occurs with python3 as well. > > Please help. > > > On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Terri Oda <terri(a)zone12.com> wrote: > >> >> On 13-04-06 3:33 AM, Udit Saxena wrote: >> >>> 1. Authenticated REST-API in Postorius/Django >>> 2. Web Posting Interface. >>> >>> And OpenPGP integration is something I would really interested in learning >>> about but have no prior experience or knowledge about how to go about it. >>> >>> Can you guys guide me to someone who is overlooking these projects ? I >>> would like to ask a few questions. >>> >> >> We haven't actually parcelled out the projects to specific mentors at this >> stage, and we prefer to keep the whole community involved in discussions as >> much as possible, so please ask all questions directly on the list! >> >> Terri >> >> > > > -- > --------------------------------------- > Udit Saxena > Student, BITS Pilani, > +917891400270 > > > > > -- > --------------------------------------- > Udit Saxena > Student, BITS Pilani, > +917891400270 > _______________________________________________ > Mailman-Developers mailing list > Mailman-Developers(a)python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/richard%40nfsnet.… > > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2013 : Authenticated REST-API in Postorius/Django
by Rahul Gaur 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Hi , Sorry for the late reply , I have been out of the city and I came back to the college yesterday only . > Welcome to our community, Glad to be a part of the community , I hope to contribute towards the development of Gnu Mailman :) > > > I'm happy to see that you are interested in the REST interfaces. > In addition to TastyPie, I suggest that you also look at django-rest-framework. > Please compare the two and let us know what you see as the advantages and disadvantages of each. > > Richard > So , last night I tried my hand on django-rest-framework [0] and TastyPie [1] as well. What I could figure out with my two quick and dirty hands on applications of both the frameworks , the django-rest-framework is a bit more lengthy ( but those few extra lines are for the best) when stacked up against Tastypie. I wrote this quick django app and then I tried to write API's for that app in both the framework.Both the frameworks have there own advantages lets talk about that. Lets talk about the django-rest-framework, this was the first framework I tried and so I started from the scratch.So for my toy app , I referred the tutorial(I felt it's better documented than TastyPie ) and started writing the code.By the time I was done ,I could do lot of things with it.Biggest advantage it has over the TastyPie is this one : >> >> $ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/formpost/ -H 'Accept:text/html' > > > The Django-rest-frameworks API's returns web browsable representation of the data by default :) I find this to be a lot more useful in the scenario where I am developing a new app from the scratch. Plus the default frontend is done with bootstrap , which makes it easier to customize as per the requirements as well. Now , I would use TastyPie for an existing django project/app which has a web interface and I just need API's so I can provide third party support for my Project. TastyPie is kind of more easy to get started with as compared to Django-rest-framework. > I highly recommend Leonard Richardson's and Sam Ruby's O'Reilly book on > RESTful Web Services: > http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596529260.do > Although the book's been out for many years now, I still think it holds up > well, and will give you a great understanding of the basic concepts and design > principles behind REST. It also gives lots of great tips for organizing your > resources, etc. Thanks for recommending this book, I have started going through it . > Of course, it makes the most sense for the authenticated REST API to as > closely mimic the core admin API as possible. > > Where there are conflicts, we > should discuss on this mailing list. > Cheers, > -Barry So , the confusion I am facing here is that the Postorius is already mature and stable app and while playing with the two frameworks for API's what I figured out is that if I opt for django-rest-framework , I would need to write new Views ? But if I go for TastyPie , I won't have to touch the existing Views and write authenticated API's. Hence to implement authenticated API's , which one would be better ? [0] - https://github.com/aregee/restful [1] - https://github.com/aregee/restpie Cheers ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rahul Gaur irc : iamaregee2 web: http://www.rahulgaur.info blogs : aregee.wordpress.com , http://sanencynicalwriter.wordpress.com/ fb: http://facebook.com/iamaregee github: https://github.com/aregee

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] Like to participate in GSOC 2013 (GNU Mailman) - Like some ideas proposed in the list (Django, Python)
by Stephen J. Turnbull 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Surya Kasturi writes: > Since no one had so far configured mailman on windows, I guess, I > can try it (not now but.. later on). Why not we build an executable > for windows (.exe) for users to install? This could take sometime > to port and solve conflicts.. but at the end, it would be superb. Realistically? On the build side, we have few to no Windows experts. I also have my doubts about "superb" in principle: Microsoft honors the POSIX functions and RFC protocols that Mailman depends on more in the breach than the observance. This could be very painful.... On the user side, are there really people out there knocking down doors to install Mailman on Windows?

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