[Mailman-Developers] A feature I'd like to emphasize for GSoC ...

[Patrick Ben Koetter]

* Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>:
> Paul Wise writes:
>  > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Florian Fuchs wrote:
>  > 
>  > > This could be something for a HTML(5)/JS/CSS savvy person (to make it
>  > > *really* convenient). I'm thinking scrollable log views, that
>  > > interactively append/prepend entries to the view, depending on your
>  > > position in the log file. Or commenting on log snippets and saving
>  > > them for further review.
>  > 
>  > As long these are based on progressive enhancement, sounds good.
> 
> I think "no thanks to interactive convenience", unless the candidate
> is *really* good at Zen Garden stuff (ie, won't need to spend any time
> thinking about progressive enhancement, let alone learning any CSS or
> JS).  Convenience can only be realized if logs can be read and
> effective queries are easy for users to generate, and the replies are
> easy to understand, too.  Let's leave Web2.0 stuff for next summer,
> please.

Let me add some inconvenience: Log contains privacy related information. I'd
expect a log view/research interface to limit output to what the person/role
may look at and no more.

p at rick

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