[Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2013 project discussion

[Richard Wackerbarth]

In evaluating a proposal, we need to look at a number of factors:

First, will it work? -- Does the proposed design accomplish the stated objective?
Next: Is it useful?
And: Can the candidate be expected to accomplish the task within the allotted time frame?
Finally: Is it the best use for our limited resources (funding, mentor time, etc.)?

If your presentation makes it easier to answer each of those questions in a positive manner, it will increase the likelihood that it will get funded.


On Apr 17, 2013, at 6:16 AM, Avik Pal <avikpal.me at gmail.com> wrote:

> for identifying an important message a classifier will be implemented. and thanks for pointing out the issue regarding the delivery of the message, if it is delivered twice then the existing implementation of delivery is sufficient, but if we want to deliver it only once then for each person we need to maintain a database of important mails/threads to him(or vice-versa) and while sending check against that database. but this is going to raise some normalization issues which are to be taken care of by careful designing.
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> Avik Pal
> Bengal Engineering & Science University,Shibpur
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> On 17 April 2013 01:02, Richard Wackerbarth <rkw at dataplex.net> wrote:
> An interesting suggestion -- A couple of things to consider:
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> How do you identify "important" messages?
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> Will you deliver these messages twice -- first as important and then, later, as a part of the digest ?
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> On Apr 16, 2013, at 2:13 PM, Avik Pal <avikpal.me at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         also I would like to propose an idea of my own. Many of us set the
> > preference in mailman to get all the emails of a day batched together, but
> > sometimes this means we miss important mails(though we get it at the end of
> > the day but we miss the moment)----important to the community, or my own
> > interest, discussion on something I also have discussed upon in my previous
> > mails, delivery of these mails instantly to the subscriber so that he can
> > also join at that very moment may come out to be a very useful feature.
> > Thus person gets to set two options
> >        1.receive batched mails only.
> >        2.receive batched mails with important mails delivered instantly.
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