On Mon, Jan 4, 2021, at 12:49 PM, Terri Oda wrote:
Happy new year everyone!
Happy new year to you too Terri!
I'm starting to prep Python for GSoC 2021, and I wanted to issue the usual invitation that we'd be happy to have Mailman as a sub-org if anyone wants to do GSoC this year. (Mailman's been fine as a separate org, but I have to do the paperwork for Python anyhow so I figured I'd offer if there's interest but no one wants to cover the admin side of things.)
Thanks for the head start, I do want us to participate this year and am planning to mentor atleast one student.
Also, I have two mailman related ideas!
- Seamless archive converter for 2.1 -> 3.*
A friend was grousing that there was no "nice" way to retain old archive urls without keeping a static copy of things, and it got me to thinking that it would definitely be possible to build something that handled the old urls and redirected or made them work seamlessly, but we didn't do it because parsing the old archives basically requires you to scrape them because otherwise we couldn't guarantee that the urls would be stable from a re-parsed mbox.
It's boring and finicky web scraping work to associate the old url and do the right things to make it work seamlessly in hyperkitty, but probably not too hard, so I was thinking that it might be suitable for a GSoC student.
This sounds like a very nice idea! How are you thinking of associating the web URLs (basically, number of the page I guess?) to Email entries in Hyperkitty since I don't see the web pages having Message-ID.
- Old mailman "skin" for postorius
Make mailman look like the 2.1 interface for people who really love the old system. There's a few options that would be different, but the goal would be to make it pretty much look the same only with a few options changed, for people who are very change adverse. We had intended for it to be *possible* to reskin Postorius, but I don't think too many people have done it, so this would be a test to see how doable that is and probably fix any underlying issues that make reskinning the interface hard. Honestly, we could also have a student do a brand new skin if we had someone who loved UI design, but I suspect replicating the old interface would be less work, and since this year's GSoC hours have been cut in half, i'd rather start with something easier.
Is this intended to be like a CSS refresh or like re-write the interface kind of project? I am thinking it might be more of the former than latter, which might be a much bigger project.
I've been out of mailman dev for 3 years, so I'm probably not the ideal mentor, but I'm up for helping on either of those if Mailman as a whole is interested in doing the GSoC thing this year.
Another idea that I've been thinking is supporting User management in Postorius. It would list all registered Users in Django & Core along with their Addresses and perhaps Subscriptions. If time permits, allow doing some actions on user's behalf like adding a new address, verifying a new address, deleting the User and all their subscriptions etc.
-- thanks, Abhilash Raj (maxking)