[Mailman-Developers] Grackle archive framework

[Aamir Khan]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at list.org> wrote:

> On Feb 16, 2012, at 11:40 PM, Aamir Khan wrote:
>
> >I talked to people on #launchpad-dev, as suggested by barry to investigate
> >about the possibility of using grackle as new archive framework for
> >mailman. The project isn't functional yet. There are two parts, client and
> >back-end service to store the messages. Client will hopefully be completed
> >by end of next week.
> >
> >For backend-service implementation, i am also thinking to get involved
> >during its development. They are planning to have cassandra based store
> for
> >storing the messages. Any thoughts about which backend service would be
> >ideal to store messages for mailman installations ?
>
> On IRC, we talked about a storm + Python mailbox library based backend,
> with a
> REST+JSON wsgi based application vending the data.  This would allow us to
> integrate fairly easily with MM3 I think, and would possibly better enable
> some of the archiver work being done by Terri and others.
>

I understand that we will store the messages in .mbox format. But I don't
understand why do we need to use storm for the archiving purpose.

>
> -Barry
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Aamir Khan | 3rd Year  | Computer Science & Engineering | IIT Roorkee