[Mailman-Users] Requirements for a new archiver

[Jon Carnes]

On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 07:00, Iain Bapty wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For those of you that don't know I am currently working on a archive 
> component for Mailman as part of my degree. The interface to the archive 
> shall be based on the ideas in Ka-Ping Yee's paper on his Zest 
> prototype. Over the past two weeks I have been looking at requirements 
> and have the following. These are in no specific order. Due to the time 
> constraints on my project (I am to only spend 200 hours in total on it, 
> including writing reports, presentations etc) there is a limit to the 
> amount I can do.
> 
> Functional Requirements
> The archive component should
> 
>    1. store email discussions.
>    2. integrate with Mailman.
>    3. provide a web-based interface to those email-discussions.
>    4. provide an interface that threads discussions by their content. (ZEST)
>    5. provide an interface that threads discussions by e-mail replies.
>    6. allow for full-text searching of the archives.
>    7. allow for filtering by date, author, and/or topic.
>    8. be MIME aware.
>    9. allow archives to be set as public or private.
>   10. allow posts to be added, deleted, and modified through web interface.
>   11. allow archives to be locked to prevent modification.
>   12. allow postings to be emailed.
>   13. allow postings to be referenced externally.
> 
>  Non-Functional Requirements
> 
>    1. Maintainable
>    2. Secure
>    3. Scalable
> 
> The minimum I am planning on doing is the first 5 functional 
> requirements restricted by the first 2 non-functional requirements.
> 
> There are a two reasons I am posting this.
> 
> Is there anything obvious that I have missed?
> 
> Which of the functional requirements, 6 to 13, do you feel are the most 
> important? (As part of my report I have to analyse the requirements 
> captured)
> 
> Any feedback is very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> 
> Iain
> 
Iain, Fantastic project!  Good luck with it.

Here is the order for the last criteria that I like:

   6. allow for full-text searching of the archives.
   9. allow archives to be set as public or private.
  13. allow postings to be referenced externally.
   7. allow for filtering by date, author, and/or topic.
   8. be MIME aware.
  11. allow archives to be locked to prevent modification.
  10. allow posts to be added, deleted, and modified through web interface.
  12. allow postings to be emailed.

Take care, and thanks!

Jon Carnes