[Mailman-Developers] Architecture for extra profile info

[Florian Fuchs]

2013/4/18 Terri Oda <terri at zone12.com>:
> We're probably going to be running around with a bit of a hack job for the
> user database in the near future (either done by a student who needs it in a
> hurry or done by one of the core devs to support a student who needs it in a
> hurry) so while I don't like to design on the assumption it's going to go
> wrong, I think in this case planning for a redesign might be prudent because
> it's pretty clear we don't actually know all our requirements.

I think in this case it makes sense to spend a more time on the API as
seen from the outside (urls, methods, json responses) than the actual
implementation. If the API is good, it's totally acceptable if the
underlying implementation will be redesigned later.

Florian