[Mailman-Developers] [Project Discussion] Approach for Implementing Admin Tasks

[Bhavesh Goyal]

Widget Specifications:

The Tasks widget gives the admin, a list of pending tasks which require his
immediate attention on the dashboard. The tasks particularly include those
of 'Held Messages' (pending for moderation) and 'Subscription Requests'.
A Task is added to the To - Do List for admin automatically, whenever a
message sent by an user to a list is held for moderation or whenever a user
makes a request for a subscription (through list-join).

That Being said,
I ve made a prototype for The widget 'model' which adds a 'task' entry for
the admin, whenever a new message is queued for moderation or a
subscription request is made (through list-join). The model can then
further be iterated to create views for postorius to generate list of all
tasks to be displayed on the dashboard.

Approach :

The 'Tasks' model and the REST API used to query the model are implemented
in the core
<https://code.launchpad.net/~bhavesh-goyal093/mailman/Tasks-Core>.
Methods such as create and delete are implemented in the mailmanclient
<https://code.launchpad.net/~bhavesh-goyal093/mailman.client/Tasks-REST>
for communicating with core's REST API.
The Corresponding class for Tasks model is created in postorius
<https://code.launchpad.net/~bhavesh-goyal093/postorius/Tasks-postorius>
models to expose its 'objects' attribute to be used latter, for generating
views for a complete list of tasks on the dashboard.
Moderation tasks are added though the 'hold' chain for incoming messages
and the membership command 'join' is used to make an entry for a
subscription task.

The Complete Prototype discussed is given in the links:

https://code.launchpad.net/~bhavesh-goyal093/mailman/Tasks-Core
https://code.launchpad.net/~bhavesh-goyal093/mailman.client/Tasks-REST
https://code.launchpad.net/~bhavesh-goyal093/postorius/Tasks-postorius

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Regards,
Bhavesh Goyal,
Computer Science Engineering,
IIIT Hyderabad