[Mailman-Developers] When will mailman 1.2 be released?
Barry A. Warsaw
bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us (Barry A. Warsaw)
Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:01:36 -0500 (EST)
>>>>> "R" == Ricardo <ricardo@miss-janet.com> writes:
R> Actually I've been thinking of some way to integrate (My)SQL
R> with Mailman. It would be great if you could choose to have
R> all the configuration stored in any form of DB you want,
R> instead of the python db (the name slipped me for a moment
R> here)... but i guess that would mean a major rewrite of a lot
R> of MM's fuctinality... or maybe the user db could be separated
R> from config.db...
R> does anybody have some thoughts on this too?
R> I know a lot of people would like to be able to have a
R> customizable userdatabase. We're going to use Mailman for a
R> project soon, where we need to define extra fields too.
I believe that the Right Solution would be to design an API for the
underlying user database. I want to support people who, e.g. already
have user accounts through Zope or some other Web-app/portal software,
so that they don't have to force users to log in twice. This would
let us distribute a GPL compatible database back-end for stand-alone
operation, but should also let us integrate with existing user
databases.
That's about as far as my own thinking has gone.
-Barry