[Mailman-Developers] UI for Mailman 3.0 update

David Andrews dandrews at visi.com
Sat Jun 5 23:48:47 CEST 2010


At 07:29 AM 6/3/2010, Anna Granudd wrote:
>Hi,
>my name is Anna and I'm participating in GSoC for Systers where my project
>this summer is to develop a new UI for Mailman 3.0 as well as a UI extension
>for Systers who are running a customized version of Mailman. The UI will be
>written as an app in Django. Together with my mentor Florian we've discussed
>some general matters regarding the UI and the most recent concern adding a
>database for it. We figured it might be good to use the core db only for the
>"standard" UI with which we'll communicate through the rest-client and for
>organizations wishing to customize the UI, such as Systers, we'll let them
>add a UI db.
>Other things we've discussed was the number of apps for the UI, if we should
>use only one or if we should separate it into, for instance, one app for the
>user UI's and one for the admin UI, or possibly split it up even more.
>We've gathered all our thoughts on
>http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Web+Interface+Status and now we'd like to
>get some feedback from you people as well as to find out if you have other
>opinions or ideas for us. I/we would really appreciate your help on this.


I hope that you plan on following WCAG 2.0 standards!  There are 
plenty of moderators and Admins who are blind or have other 
disabilities and still want to keep using the software!

Dave




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