Dean Suhr wrote

1. Is there a way to sort the Subscription Requests from newest to oldest? We approve each request and sometimes we have quite a few pending as we reach out to folks for clarification as to their eligibility to join closed lists. It would be good to see new requests at the top.

2. Can the date of an Admin Request become part of the display? Again, I am happy to modify a file in my install if you can point me to the correct one. What is the field name for the date of a request?

3. I would like to trim the text in the "name" filed to display only the first 50 characters or so. Is there a file I can modify to make this happen? We use the Name field for the subscriber to share a brief introduction and when the field is wide the admin displays scroll off the right side of screen (too wide).

All of these would require modifications to the show_pending_subs function definition in Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py.

There is code there that purports to sort the subscription requests by email address, but it doesn't work. I'll probably file a bug and fix that, but you could modify it to sort by time. you can also truncate the fullname and add the time (after converting it to a nice format) in the same function.

Let us know if you need help with the actual Python.

Maybe these can become feature requests as well.

I don't see them as that generally useful, but you are welcome to submit it to the tracker at <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+filebug>

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