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

2013-04-30 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
Steve, In my opinion, the normal use case doesn't even need the generality of domains. Now that we are talking about only the few percent remaining installations, I have to seriously ask how many of those will not be handled by power users? My concern is that, in your effort to protect the

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

2013-04-30 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
Steve, Again, we agree. (Something must be wrong :) ) I think that it is important that we (the senior developers and mentors) assure that we maintain a structure whereby each of the student proposals can proceed at the same time. Thus, for example, someone working on the User interface can do

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

2013-04-30 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
Richard, * Richard Wackerbarth r...@dataplex.net: Again, we agree. (Something must be wrong :) ) I think that it is important that we (the senior developers and mentors) assure that we maintain a structure whereby each of the student proposals can proceed at the same time. I believe you

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

2013-04-30 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
Patrick, This IS about GSoC. If we accept Terri's position, as stated and without question, then we are, de facto, eliminating some of the proposals based only on subject matter. The students making these proposals are doing so in good faith, and often based on ideas provided by our

[Mailman-Developers] Using Mailman scripts from cgi

2013-04-30 Thread Tom Browder
I'm probably going in the wrong direction, but I'm trying to create my own page for subscribers on an Ubuntu server. Before I get my cgi form working, I'm trying to use the command line script add_members and can't get the right syntax for using stdin. I've tried: $ ./add_member -r - listname

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

2013-04-30 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Richard Wackerbarth writes: In my opinion, the normal use case doesn't even need the generality of domains. I'm not going to argue with you. Let's go get some code written. Steve ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org

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

2013-04-30 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
On Apr 30, 2013, at 5:47 AM, Patrick Ben Koetter p...@sys4.de wrote: I believe you have been asked very politely not to continue this thread yesterday and give way for more pressing topics such as GSoC. Can you please do so? This is in rather bad taste. Richard and I have been

[Mailman-Developers] Using Mailman scripts from cgi

2013-04-30 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Tom Browder writes: I've tried: $ ./add_member -r - listname j...@test.org and $ ./add_member -r - listname j...@test.org but neither works. I just get the command's help output. I am in the bin dir with the script and I'm a member of the list group. echo

[Mailman-Developers] Really: architecting extra profile info [was: About authentication...]

2013-04-30 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Terri Oda writes: Oh! I think I understand some of the confusion now. I thought I'd said at the beginning why I was starting this thread at all, which is primarily because Systers has a student project that needs extra profile info. That was a long time ago, and ... none of the