[Mailman-Developers] GHC11 open source day

[Florian Fuchs]

Hi,

for those who are thinking about contributing to the new web UI (welcome, Drew!) and want to mess around with what's already there, here's a quick guide to installing the necessary components:

http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/A+5+minute+guide+to+get+the+Mailman+web+UI+running

This guide will be subject to change (especially the branch locations on launchpad), but I wanted to send this out quickly to provide a starting point. Please bear in mind that it only covers a development installation of the web ui, so no mails will be sent nor received. Also: Installing it as described on a publicly accessible server would pose a security risk. So don't! ;-)

The web UI basically consists of three components: GNU Mailman 3 (obviously), mailman-django (a pluggable Django application) and mailman.client (a ReST API client library). Many thanks go out to Anna Granudd and Benedict Stein who did almost all the work on mailman_django as part of their Google Summer of Code projects in 2010 and 2011!

Please tell me if something doesn't work or if you need help setting this up.

Cheers
Florian


   
On Monday, November 14, 2011 16:33 CET, Barry Warsaw <barry at list.org> wrote: 
 
> On Nov 14, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Drew Ferguson wrote:
> 
> >I have been thinking of getting involved in helping the mailman team
> >especially regarding the web interface where I am most at home.
> >
> >Perhaps assisting you with this might be a good introduction
> >
> >What would you suggest as a next step?
> 
> Drew, that's great, we'd love to have you help us out.  The first step is to
> join the mailman-developers mailing list (I had to approve your post).  Use
> this list to discuss any issues or work you do with Mailman, and the bug
> tracker to report any issues.
> 
> If you're looking for things to do, perhaps you can describe your interests,
> and then Florian and Terri can look for interesting tasks that align with your
> interests.
> 
> Also, if you are going to contribute code to the project, we should get you to
> sign an FSF copyright assignment for sooner rather than later.  Would you be
> willing to do that?  If so, I can get things started with the FSF.
> 
> -Barry