[Mailman-Developers] UI for Mailman 3.0 update

[Richard Leland]

Django's handling of i18n/l10n is well done. You could also use something
like Transifex to encourage contributions in various langs.

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/topics/i18n/#topics-i18n
http://www.transifex.net/

Richard Leland
rich at richleland.com
240-242-7424


On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at list.org> wrote:

> On Jun 03, 2010, at 04:56 PM, Adam McGreggor wrote:
>
> >I think I may be missing something: "Systers". Is this something
> >specific?
>
> www.systers.org
>
> >> The UI will be
> >> written as an app in Django. Together with my mentor Florian we've
> discussed
> >> some general matters regarding the UI and the most recent concern adding
> a
> >> database for it. We figured it might be good to use the core db only for
> the
> >> "standard" UI with which we'll communicate through the rest-client and
> for
> >> organizations wishing to customize the UI, such as Systers, we'll let
> them
> >> add a UI db.
> >
> >Do translations/i18n aspects come under UI customizations?
>
> We do eventually need to make sure all of the web ui can be translated.
> Ideally, we'd be able to extract text strings into .pot files and then set
> up
> a catalog for the wui.  I don't know how Django does it, but it should be
> part
> of the story.
>
> >    1. Ability for users to subscribe, manage subscriptions,
> >       unsubscribe, change emails
> >    2. Admin ability to create/delete lists via pre-defined styles
>
> Note that in my current thinking, it is the site admin who can create
> styles.
> I don't know if individual list admins should be able to do that, though
> they
> should definitely be able to pick a style and do some customizations of
> their
> list.  The ability of site admins to lock down styles, control
> customizations,
> and delegate style definitions can come later.
>
> >    3. Users ability to customize their subscirptions
> >
> >s/subscirptions/subscriptions/
> >
> >    4. Moderation
> >    5. Site admin ability to create domains, add and modify
> >       styles
> >    6. List admin ability to customize lists
> >
> >I think admins being able to set-up/customize lists, is probably
> >equally important, if not more important, then being able to
> >(un)sub; if the lists can't easily be set-up, then what's the point in
> >having people subscribe to them?
>
> Lists can currently be easily created on the command line, and
> subbing/unsubbing is a much more common task, so I think there is an
> argument
> for users being able to easily join/leave existing lists before it's easy
> to
> create lists through the web.  But I don't have strong feelings either way.
>
> -Barry
>
>
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