[Mailman-Developers] Like to participate in GSOC 2013 (GNU Mailman) - Like some ideas proposed in the list (Django, Python)

[Chris Cargile]

I promise to try and do better proof-reading for the emails I post. To
correct how my earlier email reads, please interpret the question I asked
as:

..what if we could invite/reach out to administrators who've chosen to host
their apache project-lists using 'mod_mbox approach' to consider MM3 as a
replacement solution?

With any list-admins among those projects tying the projects' mbox files
into a mailman page, we'd achieve more users trying mailman, was my only
take-away point for that, I guess.

To move into GSOC, I'd like some information on "RSS and/or NNTP access to
Mailman archives."  - and, more specifically for RSS, is displaying an mbox
file being achieved anywhere on-line using mm3 facilities (ie: hyperkitty +
django templates?) - I assume yes per mention of the live MM3 instance with
2500 users' existence, but perhaps that only runs the email part and its
archives are not web-exposed via archive-interface- was the URL for it
mentioned when it was learned of during pycon?

Thanks for your help and sharing more about this functionality!
Chris


On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Chris Cargile <follybeachris at gmail.com>wrote:

> A while back, I proposed contributing to MM3 in the area of archive
> searching and MM2 backwards -compatibility and am considering further,
> still:
>
> change: ... what if we could invite/reach out to administrators who've
> chosen to use (on on mod_mbox approach) to consider MM3 as a replacement
> solution?  This would allow us to grow the base of users by attracting an
> audience potentially with the resources to provide some nice
> observations,contributions to MM3's project I'd guess, maybe?
>
> MM3 marketing/capture strategies to rest - to return to researching MM3
> alternatives, I evaluate Apache's alternatives as:
> - mail-archive.com, markmail (good but kinda proprietary, right?);
> - marc (monolithic?);
> - and Apache's mod_mbox (GSOC project - 2005)
>
> To expand more, maybe it is required for apache projects to host/use
> mod_mbox and others, but I am wondering, then, is mail-archive.com really
> the likely system of choice used in *lots* projects due to
> searchable-archives function?  Can I say 'yay' for up-voting (again) the
> search function and express a personal appeal towards the ideas @ GSOC
> ideas (#1,#2 <http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Google+Summer+of+Code+2013>
> )
>
> I'm quite glad the activity is continuing here!
> Chris
>