[Mailman-Developers] GSOC'15: Improving styles for lists

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mar 19, 2015, at 03:31 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>Also, I suspect it would be useful to allow very incomplete templates so that
>you could apply template A to get the basic character, then apply template B
>(which is very incomplete and only changes two attributes) to get the effect
>you want.

I've always thought that styles should be compositional for exactly the
reasons you describe.  Mailing lists have a weird amalgam of attributes,
inherited and flattened from the MM2.1 mixin strategy.

Cheers,
-Barry