On Sun, Mar 1, 2020, at 4:37 PM, brian_carpen...@emwd.com wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I have been a long time supporter of Mailman 2 and now 3. Most of my > experience with Mailman has been as a service provider that offers > managed mailman hosting both for version 2 and 3. I do have the benefit > of a decade+ of insight into the use of Mailman from a list admin, > moderator, and member point of view simply via my support ticket system > that my Mailman clients have access to. > > I want to say that I appreciate all of the hard work that has been put > into bringing Mailman 3 to life. I also appreciate the forward thinking > that shows itself in the including of a REST api with Mailman 3 and the > use of and support of databases such as postgreSQL and MySQL. > > I have been using Mailman 3 for over a year now in a > commercial/production environment and have installed it on several > servers using Docker and now from source. I received quite a bit of > feedback from users this past year and also lost about 20% of my > Mailman 3 users to other competing list/forum applications. The > feedback I received was almost entirely due to shortcomings in the user > interface. > > After much thought, I have decided to break away from the use of > Postorius/Hyperkitty. Tomorrow a PHP developer will begin work on brand > new admin interface on my behalf. Here are my goals: > > 1. Modernize the admin interface to meet modern design and interface > standards. > > 2. To provide an easy installation approach to the setup and > portability of the admin interface. > > 3. To reveal everything that Mailman core has via the new admin > interface and perhaps to bring in additional features such as the > ability to migrate a Mailman 2 list into a Mailman 3 list from a > browser interface. > > 4. To bring in the use of stats that a list admin would like to see > such as overall number of list members, which list is generating the > most bounces, subscription/unsubscription rates, etc. > > 5. To provide a list creation wizard for list admins that will > automatically create a list that has preset settings in place based > upon the input during the list creation wizard. > > I am sure there are many hurdles to overcome in the process. When the > inevitable questions arises that pertain anything to the Mailman side > of this project, I hope I can count on this list for assistance. I am > also interested in seeing if I can recruit some of you to test out the > new admin interface for usability testing when I reach that stage. I am > interested to find out if some of you that have enough experience in > PHP to help contribute to this project. Bootstrap 4 and User Interface > design skills would also be appreciated. > > The name of the new admin interface: Affinity > > Wish me well with this new project and let me know on or off list of > anything that you would like to see change, removed, implemented into a > new admin interface. >
All the best! I really like the idea of having more than one option for users to choose from in terms of UI. It would truly make the Mailman Core's API efforts justified :) I've been quite out-of-sync with opensource work in past few months and my responses are often delayed. Do add me to To:, Cc: if it is something urgent that you'd like me response on though. Finally, I do want to mention that the REST API is extensible. So, if you need changes/additional details from the Core, we should be able to flush out the design and work on that. > Brian > _______________________________________________ > Mailman-Developers mailing list -- mailman-developers@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-developers-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-developers.python.org/ > Mailman FAQ: https://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > > Security Policy: https://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > -- thanks, Abhilash Raj (maxking) _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list -- mailman-developers@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-developers-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-developers.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: https://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: https://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
