Mailman 3 March 2015 - Mailman-Developers

GSOC'15: Improving styles for lists
by prakhar joshi 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

hi, I am thinking of storing the styles in the database by creating a table for the styles in the db and this table will contain all the attributes of a style and these entries can be null too. So a table which will contain a style name with all its attributes. Now as we have table for mailing list containing all the attributes in the mailing list table. So now the style table will contain all these attributes and in the mailing list table we will just store the mailing list name and the style name and this way we can connect the two table by providing foreign key of style_id to the mailing list table? I really need to discuss that thing with you people as I am new to this organization so I have very little experience with mailman core. Thanks, Prakhar Joshi DA-IICT,Gandhinagar

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GSoC 2015: Anonymous Users & Dashboards
by Sreyanth 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

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 admins/owners/mods I have a few questions in mind about the anonymous users feature. 1. Lets say a user A sends an email and it gets disguised as <foo>@<bar>. Should the user B who sends another anon email gets disguised as <foo>@<bar>? If that's the case, how would we get to know who is replying, A or B? This might create unnecessary chaos, don't you think? 2. How do we store the email mapping? The email identifier mapped to the user's email or list's subscriber id for that user? Are we looking at implementing an encryption/decryption algorithm here for additional security? Let me know your thoughts. Looking forward to hack on Mailman this summer. Thanks sreyanth *--* *Sreyantha Chary M*

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GitHub/development tools integration project Gsoc'15
by Prabhanshu Abhishek 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

Hi, I am prabhanshu abhishek, a student of indian institute of technology, kanpur(IITK), i am very much interested in the project "GitHub/development tools integration" under Gsoc'15. Till now , as i was subscribed to the mailing list many of my queries were answered there, but now i have some specific doubts regarding the project. I have successfully created the virtual environment for development, and have read about the github and mailman api's. and have some idea of project , that i have to run a script that query for any thread in mailman through the api and send it to github through the github api. i have also read about how mailman works, internally . and tried to understand some piece of code. but the thing i want to know is, 1) what are the other feature you want to implement through this.other than the mailing a thread,or pull requests. 2)the gsoc idea page says that it is necessary to fix at least one bug, but i have not been able to find some bug that is beginner friendly and related to my project, can you give me some bug to work on that will help me on my project. 3)some other necessary things that i should work upon before submitting my proposal. 4)and lastly who will be my mentor, can you tell me?

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The bundler is back in the game
by Aurelien Bompard 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

Hey people, I am pleased to announce that the Mailman bundler tool is working again. If you want to easily install Mailman + HyperKitty + Postorius, just follow this tutorial: http://mailman-bundler.readthedocs.org It is not very suitable for development though, because I get the code from the PyPI releases, not from bzr/git. Of course it also means that the latest HyperKitty release on PyPI is compatible with Mailman 3 again. Which makes me very happy. Please test it and report bugs! Cheers, Aurélien

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] Unofficial git mirror of GNU Mailman 3
by Barry Warsaw 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

On Mar 18, 2015, at 05:34 PM, Aamir Khan wrote: >It seems gitorious has been recently acquired by gitlab and would be >shutting down by May[1]. How about setting a read-only mirror on github >instead? > >[1] https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/ Not github, gitlab please. github is not free software and we are a GNU project. Individual users are fine to use any git hosting site they want but even for unofficial mirrors, we need to utilize free software, so until Launchpad gains git <wink>, gitlab's MIT license will do the trick. Cheers, -Barry

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] Unofficial git mirror of GNU Mailman 3
by Aamir Khan 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

It seems gitorious has been recently acquired by gitlab and would be shutting down by May[1]. How about setting a read-only mirror on github instead? [1] https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/ On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Abhilash Raj <raj.abhilash1(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > We have setup a unofficial git mirror[1] for GNU Mailman 3 on > gitorious.org. > I have > added mailman-core and will shortly add postorius and mailman.client too. > The > mirrors would be updated daily from the official launchpad branch. > > This mirror is just for people who want to work personally on git, the work > flow for contributing > would remain same (atleast for now ) i.e. via pull request through > launchpad. No pull requests > would be accepted on gitorious. > > [1]: https://gitorious.org/mailman/mailman > > thanks, > Abhilash Raj > _______________________________________________ > Mailman-Developers mailing list > Mailman-Developers(a)python.org > https://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: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/syst3m.w0rm%40gm… > > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > -- Regards, Aamir

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Ask for help && GSoC 2015
by 程耀 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

Hi, Everyone, I am Yao, a first-year graduate student from Peking University of China. I feel so happy to have the chance to participate in the application of GSoC 2015, and also want to experience the charm of open source. I hope to work with you all and make a contribute to the Mailman, and learn something from it. I used to participate the ACM/ICPC several times, also Being an Intern in Microsoft STC for 3 months. But indeed I have little knowledge of open source project and want to spend more time to compensate the shortage. I tried to install Mailman by following "set up postorius in five minutes", but got stuck in the command "mailman start", note that previous command can be run correctly. And the Report the error is below: "Starting Mailman's master runner /usr/bin/python3: can't open file '/usr/bin/master': [Errno 2] No such file or directory" and I also find that 'usr/bin/master' indeed not exist. I hope you can help me with this. I hope to work with you together. *_* Thanks, Yao.

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC - Dashboard for Admins/Owners/Moderators
by Florian Fuchs 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 13.03.2015 um 12:20 schrieb Yash Mehrotra: > 5. We also also give each list its individual page, so the admin > can do list specific functions like, say change settings , ban user > etc. That's probably out of the scope of this project. The lists already have moderation/settings pages. No need to redo this. If something can be improved on that end, it's probably part of a separate effort. > *Bug Fixes* I have also submitted a patch for a bug in postorius ( > waiting for some to look at it) and am also working on a bug in > Mailman core. I can't see a merge proposal from you for postorius, could you check if your bugfix branch is proposed for merging? Oh, and don't forget to add a link to the MP to your application. Florian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVBxbNAAoJEEceGbPdavl7bP0H/jY1J05viF+FqaL6GhtJUAwT /yI8nmFKExOiuieG7M0+TWkVJZ82ztzhHyV6ekQE9gzRhPD6yLbGzRk28USpKU1h itP87X0oijbw2zA/zsCpkeN0a81Zkr4ai+eINH1nDGgExdOA+Jr30mrbc/FwLREF h73Pi9KBrSSVu9p38RwKI077NSWaeN3qkAlNc2Map6cVNx8W+5UqP/FNCNNSAWnD VY+c+hoPwvPtpvUfVWjTBZXiaLZFTRx98t42Pav6ZxvUoEmqeyUP7KIDgeAlOwaE ScQu/7bJI7Vvt5ggbFuYExTvZHMOo3JOuP/AbyiTHKiZANZmevQ7R1Ip/+BA0Jw= =9xlG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Regarding Subscriber profile pages project
by Stephen J. Turnbull 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

Ashish, Aside from Abhilash's advice (to which +1), you should also look into the Syster's implementation (IIRC it lives in github/systers somewhere) of Mailman, which already implements a similar feature. You can ask (politely! you're a guest there) on systers-dev(a)systers.org (you may need to subscribe) or on Freenode IRC #systers-dev or #systers-soc.

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] Student proposal under the idea "Better handling of list styles"
by Abhilash Raj 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

Hi, We suggest that you post all your queries about Google Summer of Code to mailman-developers(a)python.org mailing list. On Tuesday 17 March 2015 07:33 PM, Mallem Nagapurnika wrote: > I am M. Naga Purnika, second year undergraduate student at B.V.R.I.T > Hyderabad College of Engineering for Women. > > I have learning experience in python and HTML5(CSS, JavaScript). > > As part of my project I have an idea of developing a mailing list with an > interactive interface that can support many features apart from handling > the mails. > > My Senior Mentor has advised me to refer mailman which is an open source > platform to develop and better handling of mailing lists. > > I have gone through it and tried to build a sample mailing list but > couldn't complete it successfully due to inconvenient interface which is > difficult for beginners like me. > > Later I have found that GSOC 2015 has opened a project on Mailman which is > similar to my project. So I would like to be a part of the project headed > under "Better handling of list styles". I would be privileged in > contributing my ideas that could be helpful to improve the management of > list styles. There has been previous discussion on this topic on this list, please browse through the archives of this list and you would have lots of stuff to get started. We need something more than "I am interested in this project idea" to help you. Also please read Ideas Page carefully. > My Current Status: >> Created virtual environments for Postorious and Mailman-Core >> Started creating a sample mailing list and currently working on it > > May i get any help regarding to proceed further. > > thanks > Purnika > -- thanks, Abhilash

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