On 11/23/2012 01:55 PM, Gordon P. Hemsley wrote:
I filed a request for enhancement about using bracketed prefixes in
subjects as filters:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1082495
Barry mentioned that I should raise the issue with regard to the dlist
discussion, I presume because my proposal overlaps and/or conflicts
with it.
However, the only things I know about what a "dlist" even is has been
garnered from skimming the four messages on the topic in the archive,
and it's not clear to me they my idea is necessarily compatible with
dlists. (They seem to be exclusive proposals that may handle the same
usecase.)
I already responded in the launchpad bug, but actually, I think they're
pretty similar, only dlists only uses the listname+topic email format to
designate sublists/topics, and the current scope of what we're doing
doesn't look at archives, just about delivery of mail to users who may
have chosen only some topics they want from a given list. I think it'd
be easier to add the prefix and archive capabilities once we have dlists
working with Mailman 3.
We already have the dlist code for Mailman 2.1 (and I believe that's all
available on launchpad somewhere; ping me if you can't find a link and
want one), and we *did* have a Google Summer of Code project aimed at
porting this code to Mailman 3. Unfortunately the student was unable to
complete the project (for personal rather than technical reasons which
it would be impolite to share), so two of us from Systers are working on
the port. The architecture looks compatible and we've got our best
guess on the necessary data structures/database tables now.
We're hoping to have it done in January and are actively working on it,
so maybe it'd be best to wait 'till that port is done and then look at
what will be needed to extend it?
Terri
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