Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC'15: Improving styles for lists

2015-03-21 Thread prakhar joshi
Prakhar Joshi DA-IICT,Gandhinagar On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: Abhilash Raj writes: Admin can change there values. You meant 'their' here and not 'there'. (-: Lighten up on the spelling stuff. *I* make that typo regularly (I think

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC'15: Improving styles for lists

2015-03-21 Thread prakhar joshi
Prakhar Joshi DA-IICT,Gandhinagar On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: I think we're pretty much in agreement on most things. Please update your proposal on melange to reflect this discussion. (The quoting has gotten too fragmented to be very useful

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC'15: Improving styles for lists

2015-03-21 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
I think we're pretty much in agreement on most things. Please update your proposal on melange to reflect this discussion. (The quoting has gotten too fragmented to be very useful in understanding what progress has been made.) ___ Mailman-Developers

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC'15: Improving styles for lists

2015-03-21 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
prakhar joshi writes: So you want to store only changed attributes under a specific list style in the table ? Isn't that make the table dynamic in width as sometimes only one attribute is stored and sometimes 3-4 attributes are stored ? That's a feature of object-relational managers

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC'15: Improving styles for lists

2015-03-21 Thread prakhar joshi
Prakhar Joshi DA-IICT,Gandhinagar On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: prakhar joshi writes: So you want to store only changed attributes under a specific list style in the table ? Isn't that make the table dynamic in width as sometimes only

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC'15: Improving styles for lists

2015-03-20 Thread Abhilash Raj
Hi Prakhar, I see that you mentioned below the details of our conversation, but the language looks confusing to me. Please look out for simple mistakes in your English before sending the mail, not just here but anywhere. On Friday 20 March 2015 12:37 PM, prakhar joshi wrote: hi, For the

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC'15: Improving styles for lists

2015-03-20 Thread prakhar joshi
hi Abhilash, Thanks for all these corrections. Prakhar Joshi DA-IICT,Gandhinagar On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Abhilash Raj raj.abhila...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Prakhar, I see that you mentioned below the details of our conversation, but the language looks confusing to me. Please look out

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC'15: Improving styles for lists

2015-03-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 19, 2015, at 03:31 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Also, I suspect it would be useful to allow very incomplete templates so that you could apply template A to get the basic character, then apply template B (which is very incomplete and only changes two attributes) to get the effect you

[Mailman-Developers] GSOC'15: Improving styles for lists

2015-03-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
prakhar joshi writes: I am thinking of storing the styles in the database by creating a table for the styles in the db Mailman's databases are not relational dbs, they're object-oriented. Underneath the objects are stored in relational dbs and managed by an ORM (SQLAlchemy), of course,

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC'15: Improving styles for lists

2015-03-19 Thread prakhar joshi
hi, so we should have templates already created in a folder with default values of the attributes in it. the templates will be of BASIC OPERATION, BOUNCES etc. and under each of the template we will gonna have attributes for it and then we can apply these templates on the list and even user

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC'15: Improving styles for lists

2015-03-19 Thread prakhar joshi
what if we create separate tables for each class in the mailman/src/mailman/styles/base.py and store the name and their attributes in it with user_name with it. I think the attributes for the classes defined already will be fixed? So now if we feel the requirement of including new things to style

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC'15: Improving styles for lists

2015-03-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
prakhar joshi writes: what if we create separate tables for each class in the mailman/src/mailman/styles/base.py and store the name and their attributes in it with user_name with it. Who are these users (subscribers? admins?) and why do you want to associate styles with users? Please use

[Mailman-Developers] GSOC'15: Improving styles for lists

2015-03-18 Thread prakhar joshi
hi, I am thinking of storing the styles in the database by creating a table for the styles in the db and this table will contain all the attributes of a style and these entries can be null too. So a table which will contain a style name with all its attributes. Now as we have table for