On 2015-01-24, 5:08 AM, Andrew Stuart wrote:
you can look back in the archives to the huge discussion we had about unifying the user data store..
Is there search to find that discussion or do I have to manually review all the threads? Any idea what year it was in?
The data store discussion was I think two years ago around the time of pycon. I started it with a thread entitled "Architecture for extra profile info"
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2013-April/022852.html
(As Sumana says, mail-archive is usually the best bet for searching the mailman archives. I searched locally, though.)
But I'm serious that it's only worth reading if you're incredibly bored. It became a huge architecture discussion that only ended on the lists with an "agree to disagree." (and I got bombarded with further comments about it on IRC for months after the list discussion ended, so I'm actually kind of still cranky about it.)
I think it's still a thing we need to look in to more seriously, but be warned that it's a topic folk have been passionate about in the past, to the point where progress was not made. On the other hand, one of the people involved in that discussion has moved on to other things and the rest of us do collaborative work together more frequently, so it might be easier to reach a solution now.
Terri