[Mailman-Developers] GSOC - Seeking insight on Authenticated RESTful APIs

2013-05-06 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Before I get started on the content, note that I'm going to be rather critical of most posts of all students for a while, mostly negative. **This is not a reflection of the quality of the candidate or of the proposals involved.** Instead, it reflects the fact that we need to learn to communicate

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC - Seeking insight on Authenticated RESTful APIs

2013-05-06 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On May 6, 2013, at 4:36 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: Initially , I was familiar with tastypie and I was strongly considering to use Tastypie only for this project. However after some advice from Richard , I am trying to be more flexible and I am trying to evaluate both

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoc - Requirement from Mentor to complete the project

2013-05-06 Thread Abhilash Raj
Let me divide the project in a few pieces so that each can be discussed upon separately. * Firstly a utility to encrypt or decrypt the message. Well i found [python-gnupg][1] for this purpose and would try to write a wrapper around it for the use by mailman. But I found another option for it

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC Applicants

2013-05-06 Thread Shanu Salunke
Hey all, As I understand it, this thread is meant for looking at your project from an implementation point of view (correct me if I'm wrong). Well, my proposed project is called A Modern Interface for Member's Area and is basically aims at providing the existing (and some new) MM-HK

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC Applicants

2013-05-06 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Shanu Salunke writes: What I need help with as a starting point (at least) is how to link the functionality with the (django) front-end. One solution (thank you abomard) is using the API that (postorius also uses) MM3 and HK have support for. This isn't your job, IMO. Your proposal is

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoc - Requirement from Mentor to complete the project

2013-05-06 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Abhilash Raj writes: Let me divide the project in a few pieces so that each can be discussed upon separately. This is a good idea, but you should take them up one at a time, unless you have a good approach and are expecting sounds good, get started as the reply to that point. * Firstly a

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC Applicants

2013-05-06 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Stephen J. Turnbull writes: Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. Urk. I think I said way too much. Your lucky day! ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman

[Mailman-Developers] GSOC Project Discussion

2013-05-06 Thread varun sharma
Hi Guys, In my project Better user settings management, i need to extend the Client class of mailman.client and i will be adding a lot of instance methods and variables to the class. Right now, i am having a look at the mailman core and mailman interfaces to figure out if the method/implementation

[Mailman-Developers] GSOC Project Discussion

2013-05-06 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
varun sharma writes: Thanks for the introduction! In my project Better user settings management, i need to extend the Client class of mailman.client and i will be adding a lot of instance methods and variables to the class. Is this the right approach? What are you adding (some examples