[Mailman-Developers] [Fwd: Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrade script for old databases?]

[J C Lawrence]

On Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:25:39 -0500 
Ken Manheimer<klm@digicool.com> wrote:

> [Christian tismer is having problems migrating a bunch of maillists
> to the new version, specifically because of the skew in customized
> (and even non-customized!) list web page templates.  It brings up
> what i think is a substantial question about the template mechanism.
> I want to put the issue out there, see what the prevailing wisdom
> is.  Details below...]

I share his concerns, and am running into a few similar problems with
clients I'm deploying MailMan at.  Further, while the template
structure is useful, the ability to define complex nodes for the
templates is not wonderful.  

  eg When the HTML for the list introductory description (that gets
inserted into the listinfo page) is non-trivial, is is an absolute
bitch to edit and correct in the provided form.

Getting http://www.kanga.nu/lists/listinfo/mud-dev/ to look right took
almost an hour.  It still isn't quite right, but I've given up trying
to fix the last niggles figuring its "good enough".

Note: The only editing I did on the template was on the archives
section as I don't use pipermail.  All the rest is via the template
expansion.

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