On Apr 23, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
following our discussions at the Pycon 2009 Mailman sprint I've come up withfirst draft of a/the future mailman 3 web interface.
Patrick, thanks very much for doing this. I think it's a good way to begin the discussions.
One thing that it would be good to think about is how MM3's improved model can make navigation and configuration easier. For example, when a user is thinking about her subscriptions, she needn't be constrained to a list-centric view. In MM2, certain global operations were pure hacks, and a user always had to see a list-centric view. For sites that run many inter-related mailing lists, the user will probably want to get a more general view of their subscriptions and options.
On Launchpad for example, they can go to one page that shows all their subscriptions. Each mailing list that they are (or may) subscribe to is listed on one page, and each has a pull down menu that lets the user unsubscribe (i.e. not subscribed), subscribe with their "preferred email address" (a concept not yet exposed in Mailman, but which could be), or subscribed with a specific address.
This is nice because they can pretty easily manage all their subscriptions from one page. You could imagine other global-ish things on this page, like vacation settings, or default site-wide user options. This page might also contain widgets for registering and confirming additional email addresses linked to the user account.
On the list-admin side, another thing to think about is the application of styles. A style needn't be just something that can be applied when the list is created. Say for example, there is a "micro- style" that lets them disable digests and select a standard personalized footer. That might be a style available to the list owner on their list page.
I do like the idea of a notifications area with a list of things a user can do (i.e. the "3 pending"). This of course would be linked to task-oriented pages for addressing those things. A user might also see a list of registered emails that need confirming (with a link to send another confirmation message).
That's all for now. -Barry
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