[Mailman-Developers] Storing additional user data

[Barry Warsaw]

On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 15:05, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:

> you risk turning mailman into yet another CMS, rather than allowing 
> mailman to interconnect with all of the existing CMS's... the latter is 
> a much easier and more powerful task.

...and is /definitely/ the direction Mailman 3 is going in.

> If I were to do this, I'd find two volunteers, one running php-nuke, 
> one running slashcode, and have them write the plug-ins for those CMSes 
> while Barry wrote the interface they'd talk to, and once Mailman worked 
> friendly with both of those, it'd likely work easily with any CMS.

and/or Zope <hint, hint>.

Soon, I hope to have a strawman membership API for Mailman 3.  Stay
tuned...

-Barry