[Mailman-Developers] Mailman Zope Integration Product

Johan Carlsson johanc@torped.se
Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:30:53 +0100


> > Hi all,
> > I'm planing to write a Zope Product that integrates
> > with Mailman.
> > In the first iterations the main goal is to provide=20
> > users management of their mailing list account.
> > In coming iterations I planing to extend with
> > an administration management interface and archive
> > access (with possible ZCatalog integration).
> >=20
> > Are there anyone else doing stuff with Zope?
> > And what I need to consider?
> > Especially how to handle multiple simultaneous=20
> > management accesses? (When and how do I need to
> > use locks?)
> > Any ideas are welcome?
>=20
> We (Digital Creations) have a potential project that would modify =
Mailman
> to be able to run wih SQL storage of its information (primarily =
members
> and subscription information), which would then be managed through =
Zope.

(Hi Chris,)
That's sound like a great id=E9!
I suppost it would be integrated with the Portal Toolkit=20
membership management as well?
> ZCatalog integration wouldn't be too hard, honestly.
Probably not :-)


As I see it right know there might be problems with
multiple users form diffrent thread acquiering a
lock on a list.

How is this handled by the cgi-scripts in mailman?

//Johan