On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 12:00:57PM +0000, Iain Bapty wrote:
Which of the functional requirements, 6 to 13, do you feel are the most important?
I think they are all quite basic. I think personally 10 and 12 are 'should-haves' in my opinion.
Also have a look at the "SMART Archiver" project, http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartarchiver/
A replacement for the standard GNU Mailman archiver that
supports attachments, searching, date selection, message
editing and more, requires a database such as postgressql
(mysql support is coming in a future version)... Is there anything obvious that I have missed?
Other requirements you might consider:
db support for Zope, http://zope.org
support for mime-attachements (PDF, Word, etc.)
to be able to fix threading issues through the web (people starting a new subject by reply'ing on a previous post, fix threading for mailreaders that don't support proper "In-Reply-To" threading.
Unix mbox output (based on the db). That would make it easy to upgrade, or to change to a different archiver.
support for a 'view complete thread' (this would really be nice!)
python based, because that would make it fit better with mailman and will make it easier to install
easy to use api for adding new messages (e.g. use it as an archiver for wiki discussions, such as http://zwiki.org/GeneralDiscussion )
be able to override message-view class (e.g. so that wiki's can add wiki linking or similar features to the messages)
Regards,
PieterB
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