Re: [Mailman-Developers] NNTP Archive - final report

2012-08-21 Thread Alexander Sulfrian
At Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:53:36 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: > Thanks for the update Alex. I can confirm that Thunderbird on Ubuntu 12.10 > can read the one newsgroup that has about 88 messages in it. Claws cannot > though - it thinks the newsgroup is empty. Oh I see... claws-mail requires support fo

[Mailman-Developers] NNTP Archive - final report

2012-08-21 Thread Alexander Sulfrian
Hi, reaching the end of google summer of code, here is my final report. I have pushed all code to my bzr repository and have a running demo of the NNTP archive under mailman3.animux.de port 119 and 563. (The postorius web interface under mailman3.animux.de is not working completly correctly since

[Mailman-Developers] Exposing not advertised lists via nntp archiver

2012-07-14 Thread Alexander Sulfrian
Hi, I have a conceptional problem: There are mailinglists with a pubic archive but that not be advertised by the server. The nntp archiver now have to supply a list of all available archives. If this list does not contain a mailing list, in most news clients you do not have a chance to subscribe

Re: [Mailman-Developers] URGENT: Google Summer of Code status report and code due

2012-07-12 Thread Alexander Sulfrian
At Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:44:37 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Alexander Sulfrian writes: > > > If the list_name would be also reversed, it could lead to some > > surprising subtree clashing. For example web2.0 would be in the same > > subtree like something1.0 (peop

Re: [Mailman-Developers] URGENT: Google Summer of Code status report and code due

2012-07-11 Thread Alexander Sulfrian
aAt Thu, 05 Jul 2012 09:24:33 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > [...] > Newsgroup names are an issue here. It seems to me that (if not > gateway'd to Usenet) they should be something like (pseudo-code) > > "mailman." + join(reverse(split(list-id,".")),".") > > Eg, this list would be "mailm

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC midterm evaluations start Monday July 9th!

2012-07-10 Thread Alexander Sulfrian
Hi, sorry for delaying my report until now, but I just wanted to finish some basic parts. So now here comes my summary what I have done during the past weeks: After the first steps of checking out a copy of Mailman 3 and Twisted, building it and executing the test suites, I started with a install

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Twisted NNTP

2012-07-03 Thread Alexander Sulfrian
At Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:48:43 -0400, Joshua Cranmer wrote: > > On 7/3/2012 4:30 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > I guess one question is whether it's more work to fix Twisted's NNTP > > protocol > > support or bootstrap the whole thing from scratch async. I don't know how > > involved NNTP is, so a ca

[Mailman-Developers] Twisted NNTP

2012-07-03 Thread Alexander Sulfrian
Hi, I working for gsoc creating NNTP access to the mailing list archives for Mailman 3. Therefor I tried Twisted NNTP, during the last days. I noticed, that it is not standard conform in any way. For example: it missing required commands and returns wrong error codes on unknown sub commands. I wi

Re: [Mailman-Developers] URGENT: Google Summer of Code status report and code due

2012-06-06 Thread Alexander Sulfrian
At Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:59:06 -0600, Terri Oda wrote: > Hi Alex! Hi, > We're starting week 3 of Google Summer of Code, and as far as I know, > none of us have heard from you, and we're getting rather worried. > Midterms come up fast and we will have to fail you if you don't get in > touch soon

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2012 - NNTP archive access

2012-04-01 Thread Alexander Sulfrian
Hi, On Tue Mar 27 22:52:04 CEST 2012, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > On Mar 27, 2012, at 09:09 PM, Alexander Sulfrian wrote: > > > What are the next steps you would propose. I unfortunately not up > > to date with the development of mailman 3. But I am a little bit > > familia

[Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2012 - NNTP archive access

2012-03-27 Thread Alexander Sulfrian
Hi, I would like to participate at the google summer of code this year for mailman. While reading through the ideas in the wiki, the NNTP archive access look very interesting. I took part in the gsoc last year for vlc, developing a c library for accessing a sony minidisc player from linux. This