[Mailman-Developers] Postorius: Missing Features (Draft)

Florian Fuchs f at state-of-mind.de
Tue Sep 18 21:54:08 CEST 2012


Hi all,

in order to give everyone interested (and everyone joining this 
Saturdays's mini-hackathon) something to code, here's a list of existing 
Postorius features, followed by a list of *some* missing features. Of 
course, the second list is up for discussion - ideally it should 
transform into a concrete "what Postorius must be able to do"-list 
before Friday, so we can file bugs on launchpad and assign them.


1) Existing Features:

* Add/Remove lists
* List overview (shows all public mailing lists).
* List info/subscribe/unsubscribe
* Mass subscription (admin only)
* List members overview (admin only)
* Held messages/moderation (admin only)
* Edit list settings (list identity, autoresponse, digest. moderation - 
admin only)
* Add domains (admin only)
* Authentication through BrowserID or a Postorius admin account (created 
during installation).


2) What's missing:

* Adding/editing users
* Editing user data
* Assigning roles to existing memberships (member/owner/moderator).
* Access control based on membership roles/superuser status.
* Membership moderation
* Better/more help/success/error messages
* Better test coverage
* OpenID Log-In
* Registration without BrowserID, OpenID?
* Anonymous subscriptions?
* Translation?

There are, of course, many more possible features, but I'd consider 
these the essentials. I'm also sure I've missed something important... ;-)

Cheers
Florian






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