This is just incredible. Thanks so much!
On Oct 26, 2010, at 3:54 PM, Terri Oda wrote: > As some of you may know, Mailman had a bunch of Google Summer of Code > students working on our codebase via Systers, which hired students to do > improvements on their Mailman-based list infrastructure. > > I was mentoring for the project which worked on the archives, where we had > two students, Yian Shang who worked on the web interface for the archives, > and Priya Iyer who worked on integrating search. They've produced some great > demos that you all need to see, and some code that I'd really like to see > integrated into Mailman 3. > > I was going to forward their final summaries to the lists, but since they're > quite long, here's the things I'd like you all to check out first and > foremost. There's two neat demos here! > > #1: > > Yian's been working on a variety of UI infrastructure improvements (note that > in this case, she's working at the code to support the UI, not the graphics > and theming, so this may not *look* fancy but it *behaves* really well) > > Her threaded conversation demo is here: > http://dev.systers.org/pipermail/testing/all/conversation-3.html > > and note that you can actually click through and read messages there, so try > poking around those archives and see how you like them! > > And you might be interested in hearing about the use cases that went into > threading and quote detection that made that demo possible. Many of you may > have answered the surveys I sent out on her behalf which were used to > generate these use cases! She's got a whole series of posts on it, but > here's one of interest: > http://movicont.nfshost.com/blog/mailman-archives-ui-added-automatically-detecting-quotes-support > > #2: > > Priya's search demo is here: > http://lists.priyakuber.in/cgi-bin/mailman/mailocate/search.py > > She'd originally hoped to find and integrate an existing search package, but > licensing proved to be an issue for upstream contribution, so she wound up > implementing her own. You can search a string, a phrase, wildcard searches > with *, by author, by subject, and using some basic operators (AND OR NOT all > work). It's got a basic spell check, though she expects that will need to be > improved. > > The documentation is here: > http://systers.org/systers-dev/doku.php/doumentation-priya > And the code is here: http://github.com/beachbrake/Mailocate/tree/master/demo/ > > ----- > > I've cc'ed mailman-users on this email since many people there contributed to > the surveys we used to develop use-cases, but follow-ups should probably go > to mailman-developers! > > > Terri > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list mailman-us...@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/sandhills%40gmail.com _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
