[Mailman-Developers] Discourse Integration

[Vaibhav Lohani]

Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull.stephen.fw at u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:

> I don't know of anyone who is currently working on it, nor do we have
> specific plans at the moment.

Is there anyone interested to work on this as of now ? I was thinking
to start working on this integration. If anyone is interested and we
can integrate it together, it would be great.

> What sort of integration do you have in mind?

The idea is to have a two way binding sort of integration, where the
conversations can be carried out in discourse as well as mailing list
mode.

Both python and discourse have their rest apis. Discourse has its
front end for the api in ember.js ( A javascript framework ) that
works in the browser. So, we can have a delivery queue for discourse
like we have other delivery queues and a processor for that queue that
hits the discourse api. Also, we will have to tweak a little bit on
the ember front end so that it hits the mailman rest api every time a
new message is sent from discourse, or else, if the mailman rest api
should not be opened publicly, then we will have to tweak on the
server side at discourse api, as both mailman and discourse will be
hosted on the same server.

Thanks and Regards,
Vaibhav Lohani