Hey,

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Ana Badescu <anabee.emacs@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

While writing my proposal I came across 2 important issues related to the Javascript Client for the Mailman project that have yet to be raised:

1. What I initially had in mind, was to build a Mailman client in Javascript that provides the same API and functionality that the current one in Python does. The Python client API can be fully mimicked using a number of design patterns even though Javascript doesn't offer properties capability for example. However, node.js modules tend to take advantage of Javascript's asynchronous nature and have adopted sort of a standard practice to achieve it: it's called error-first callbacks, and most if not all APIs enforce it. You can read about it here http://thenodeway.io/posts/understanding-error-first-callbacks/ and here https://docs.nodejitsu.com/articles/errors/what-are-the-error-conventions

This boils down if we want to provide a client API that adopts the node.js conventions and works the same way most modules do or do we want to offer something almost similar to the current Python client API. There's a lot more to be said on this matter (for eg: callbacks being the reason why "callback-hell" exists) but I'd like to get your input first.

Since, you will be working with Node,js ; you cannot get away from callbacks. This JavaScript port is not a simple port :)

2. I'd also like to make part of the project, a node.js application that

uses the Mailman Javascript client and offers all the functionality Postorious does. Is that a good idea? This doesn't make the scope of the project too large or unattainable.

I cannot comment on this as I am a student just like you.

Thank you, Ana

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