Hi, I'm interested in working on this project for the GSoC. After some reading and thinking I have broken the project into the following rough list of smaller jobs :

• Functionality for open issues.
• Ability to select some specific messages only or a link to discussion.
• Functionality for closing issues. In case, after some discussion it is decided that opening the issue was a wrong idea.
• Duplicate issue notifier (like the one explained on the blog).
• Administration could be added which would require approval of some authority before issue could be logged from the mailing list.
• Choice to open issue on some other site than GItLab

What else should i add or what should i remove from the above list?

As Mailman needs to interact with GitLab, I searched for some GitLab API for python and found this https://about.gitlab.com/applications/#api-clients Is this right or there is some other way?

I still have only a fade idea about how I'm going to do it (as I started on this only two days ago). I would like some help on this.

I have spent the last few days setting up Mailman for development and reading through the archives and GSoC documents. I am now looking forward to working on some easier issues.

About Me: I am Gurkirpal Singh, a 20 years old student from India. I have been coding in Python for about an year. I have some beginner level familiarity with Django .I have worked on some small open source projects. The code is at github.com/gpalsingh (but that's not all). I consider my skills to be between beginner and intermediate. I'm don't have much problem in reading others' code. I also have worked with some other languages like C, C++, Java, PHP etc.

Thanks