On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 01:34:34AM -0600, Okusanya Damilola wrote:

Sir,

My name is Okusanya Oluwadamilola. I am currently enrolled for my Masters programme at Saint Cloud State University at St.Cloud Minnesota. I played around with Apache ActiveMQ last semester and have some basic Python skills. Could you shed some more light about the project? Thanks for your prompt and favourable response.

The idea behind this project is to use Mailman's (Python-based) IArchiver interface to add outgoing posts to a message queue (or pub/sub) system which can be consumed by any number of applications, no matter if they're written in Python or not -- asynchronously, even simultaneously. This would open up Mailman to all kinds of use cases, maybe some of them beyond that of a "traditional" mailing list.

One part of the project would be to choose and integrate a small number of backends (ActiveMQ could be one of them, but I think both first-in-first out as well as pub/sub are interesting concepts) to distribute list posts.

The other part is to come up with an interesting idea how this could be used and maybe create an implementation of that too (depending on the application's scope): Say, hooking it up to a static web page generator. Or creating a websockets server based on this. (These are just spontaneous ideas -- get creative!).

In order to prepare for this it makes sense to study Mailman's IArchiver interface in the core (src/mailman/interfaces/archiver.py) and check out the existing implementations: mhonarc and mailarchive (both in src/mailman/archiving), but especially HyperKitty.

Florian

Sincerely,

Okusanya OIuwadamilola.

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