[Mailman-Developers] Mailman Dynamic Sublists

[Jennifer Redman]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Terri Oda <terri at zone12.com> wrote:

>
> How similar is this to the Topic functionality that's around now?
> (all messages matching a topic regex can be subscribed to/
> unsubscribed from.)  I'm guessing the big difference is that your
> dynamic sublists are generated, well, dynamically?  Would it be
> possible to just put in some code to generate the topics
> automatically and have that meet your needs?
>

At first glance, this sounds like an excellent alternative, and possibly
easier to implement then bringing the legacy code up to date.  I'm still
sorting through all of the extra features that seem to be bundled in the
extension.

There is also a database dependency -- Systers is using Postgres -- which is
an added level of complexity and difference from the main Mailman branch
that would be nice to eliminate if we could do so without losing any major
functionality.

Would you mind pointing me in the direction of documentation on the topics
functionality -- I found the excellent entries in the handbook ;>, but would
like to take a look at some release notes or additional doc if it's around.
Is the Mailman Developer Resources home page on the wiki the best place to
start?

Thanks!