Hi everybody, I was looking at GSOC 2016 wiki page and I found "Preset List Settings Templates" project quite interesting.

After reading out the project description and the discussion on the project from the mail archives I have been able to reach out the following conclusion : I will be required to develop a Web Interface that will allow the admins to set the different attributes to the different mailing lists using some fixed templates(also known as styles). Not only this they will be able to define their own styles and use them. This will serve as our front-end.

In the back-end, we will be using tables for storing style attributes and permission level(read only or editable). This table will basically contain all the "stylable" attributes with "default or predefined" values as contained in the mailing list table and one extra column for permissions. There will also be some back-end python code whose key function would be to read the attribute values from the styles table and when the user applies a style on a mailing list it will copy the attribute values from the style table to that particular mailing list's table.

Please do correct me if I am wrong somewhere. Also,I wish to seek your views on this approach.

Also tell me if I would need to develop a Command Line Interface(which I will love to develop) as well or only Web Interface would suffice?

Thanks, Harshit Bansal.