Re: [Mailman-Developers] MM command prefix and-or single mm-admin CLI frontend

2008-11-08 Thread David Champion
> I like the idea of a master command, and quite naturally I would choose > 'mailman'. I didn't know that Trac did this, but lots of other programs > do, and I would look at the Bazaar code to see if there's anything we can > steal there too. If there's a Cheeseshop package we can just use, a

Re: [Mailman-Developers] MM command prefix and-or single mm-admin CLI frontend

2008-11-08 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 7, 2008, at 5:25 AM, Andy Buckley wrote: It sounds trivial, but one thing that I've always regarded as a usability problem in MM2 is the proliferation of admin command names. As a terminal junky, a common way to learn the functionality of

[Mailman-Developers] MM command prefix and-or single mm-admin CLI frontend

2008-11-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Andy Buckley writes: > In MM, there is no common prefix Since most commands work best from the Mailman home directory, "bin/" works fine for me. > is to have a single admin command which can either behave like a > non-interactive process or a subcommand interpreter, depending on > how it is

[Mailman-Developers] MM command prefix and-or single mm-admin CLI frontend

2008-11-07 Thread Andy Buckley
Hi, I've been meaning to send this mail for a long time, but for one reason or another (mostly fear of making UI suggestions for a project whose internals I don't really know) have repeatedly managed to put it off! It sounds trivial, but one thing that I've always regarded as a usability problem