[Mailman-Developers] Web Posting Interface: Additional Features.

2013-04-29 Thread Peter Markou
Hello everyone in the community. As you may or may not know, I've applied a proposal in Melange for Web Posting Interface. The description of the project idea states: the interface itself may not take the whole summer, so I've come up with some features that I would like to implement for Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC Project idea: OpenPGP integration

2013-04-29 Thread Ian Eiloart
On 27 Apr 2013, at 14:40, Richard Wackerbarth r...@dataplex.net wrote: I don't think that we have the expertise to create a secure system. At best, we can adopt good practices and provide an obscured traffic stream. I consider anything more to be beyond the scope of the MM project. Also,

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Web Posting Interface: Additional Features.

2013-04-29 Thread Ian Eiloart
On 29 Apr 2013, at 09:39, Peter Markou markoup...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone in the community. As you may or may not know, I've applied a proposal in Melange for Web Posting Interface. The description of the project idea states: the interface itself may not take the whole summer, so

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Architecture for extra profile info

2013-04-29 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Apr 28, 2013, at 11:59 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: Richard Wackerbarth writes: snip My point is that IMHO it's flexible *enough*. I'm advocating that we attach the roles (whatever they may be) to an entire collection of lists. I know what you're advocating, and I

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC Project idea: OpenPGP integration

2013-04-29 Thread Stefan Schlott
On 29.04.2013 11:40, Ian Eiloart wrote: Also, what kind of secure list would have automated processing of message content as a requirement? imho you're asking the wrong question ;-) _All_ network communication should be encrypted, it is a pity that mail encryption is so little adopted. If a

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC Project idea: OpenPGP integration

2013-04-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Ian Eiloart writes: Also, what kind of secure list would have automated processing of message content as a requirement? Precisely, a list that wants to avoid this requirement: If a message is gpg encrypted, then every sender would require the public keys of every recipient, would they

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC Project idea: OpenPGP integration

2013-04-29 Thread Richard Damon
On 4/29/13 5:40 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote: Also, what kind of secure list would have automated processing of message content as a requirement? If a message is gpg encrypted, then every sender would require the public keys of every recipient, would they not? Which means that a PKI for the list

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Architecture for extra profile info

2013-04-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Richard Wackerbarth writes: So you have at least three layers. Do you really think that it is more difficult to implement a general recursive tree than it is to implement those layers? No. What I think is difficult is to implement a general recursive tree *and* an API for expressing

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Architecture for extra profile info

2013-04-29 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Apr 29, 2013, at 8:12 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: Richard Wackerbarth writes: So you have at least three layers. Do you really think that it is more difficult to implement a general recursive tree than it is to implement those layers? No. What I think is

[Mailman-Developers] About authentication (was Re: Architecture for extra profile info)

2013-04-29 Thread Terri Oda
1. I would like to remind/tell you all that FOR THIS RELEASE, we will ONLY be supporting Mozilla Persona and passwords as authentication methods. This is not up for discussion at this time; it's a choice we've made to in order to help move the release forwards. 2. As such, any discussion

Re: [Mailman-Developers] About authentication (was Re: Architecture for extra profile info)

2013-04-29 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Apr 29, 2013, at 3:06 PM, Terri Oda te...@zone12.com wrote: 1. I would like to remind/tell you all that FOR THIS RELEASE, we will ONLY be supporting Mozilla Persona and passwords as authentication methods. This is not up for discussion at this time; it's a choice we've made to in order

Re: [Mailman-Developers] About authentication (was Re: Architecture for extra profile info)

2013-04-29 Thread Terri Oda
On 13-04-29 3:25 PM, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: I'll go further than that and suggest, for the purpose of GSoC: [snip details] These are good if you're going to do the implementation. If you're not, I'm happy to leave some of these details up to the person who actually writes the code.

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Architecture for extra profile info

2013-04-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Richard Wackerbarth writes: There are two aspects of using a generic tree. The first is some customization of the tree to fit the installation's delegation model. Here, I would suggest that sample base installations Once again, you're making an argument based on theory that nobody

[Mailman-Developers] About authentication (was Re: Architecture for extra profile info)

2013-04-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Terri Oda writes: 1. I would like to remind/tell you all that FOR THIS RELEASE, we will ONLY be supporting Mozilla Persona and passwords as authentication methods. 3. While I agree that thinking about these things in advance is useful, I think this discussion is starting to crowd