Happy new year everyone!
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.)
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.
- 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.
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.
Terri