On Feb 15, 2010, at 7:38 AM, Manuel VACELET wrote: > At STMicroelectronics, we developed a web front-end to display mailman lists > archives into the forge (Codendi). The development is pretty simple as it's > just a new archiver for mailman that stores the mails into the forge database > and a dedicated development to display mails with a gmail like interface > tightly integrated with the forge (authentication, membership, etc). > > The biggest development was to support the different kind of mime messages in > order to display HTML emails properly (and safely thanks to HTMLPurifier). > > We have made a small patch to mailman in order to have 2 archiver in the same > time (the default one + the forge one). > > As of today, the branch is not yet publicly available, I will see how we can > share the code through Codendi repository.
Yes, I'd really like to see that work, it sounds quite interesting. A couple of thoughts: Mailman 3 has interfaces that allow for any number of archivers to be connected to a mailing list. I have implementations for Pipermail and mail-archive.com. The interface is pretty straightforward so hopefully it would be easy to add one for a forge archiver. How tightly integrated with the forge database is your archiver? Does it have well defined interfaces that could be plugged into a standalone Mailman installation? IOW, how possible would it be to take your work and develop a standalone archiver? If you release your work under a free software license (technically, GPL-compatible) then the Mailman community might be interested in helping to develop it further. I think there's been a serious dearth of progress on open source archivers over the last several years. -Barry _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
