[Mailman-Developers] GSoC Project Discussion - Web Posting Interface.

[Peter Markou]

First things first, I would like to thank you all for this kind of
brainstorm. I went through all
your replies and I'm about to express my opinion for each of them below:

1) I totally agree with Steve and Richard regarding the split of the
Posting functionality from
   Hyperkitty. After all, DRY is one of the best principles that Django
offers and we should
   conform with it.

2) What Barry proposed seems like an excellent candidate to join the
inventory of features,

3) And lastly, the way I approach a new project could use the inventorying
possibilities task,
  since it offers a good way of determining the specifications. Hence, it
will give a crystal clear
  understanding of the application in order to proceed with the design and
the implementation.


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Peter Markou <markoupetr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello to all the members of the community,
>
> I've applied a proposal on Melange for the Web Posting Interface.
> The major subject of this project, as described in the wiki, is to
> allow logged in users to post message from the web interface and
> integrate it into the appropriate pages(e.g the hyperkitty archives,
> the postorius list settings pages).
>
> Now regarding Richard's email, "GSoC Applicants". After having a
> comprehensive examination in Hyperkitty I found that the functionality
> for posting messages through web exists. After having a conversation
> with abompard, that was confirmed. I suppose that if I complement this
> functionality with some unit tests wouldn't mind(since unit tests are
> missing).
> So what's left for me is to:
> -integrate/implement this functionality in the postorius list settings
> pages and
> -implement the features that I proposed, in order to make the mailman web
> interface usable as a web forum.
>
> These features are:
> - User's filter tools,
> - User Profiles(support for name, photo, bio, past posts & files,
> statistics about posts)
> - Top X Threads Of All-Time,
> - Monthly List Health,
> - Mentioned in Thread references,
> - Keyword-Based Thread Browse(HK has support for tags on threads).
>
> I would like to ask if someone is going to add any existing information to
> User's
> profile, so I could leverage this functionality. From mentors-developers
>  I would
> like their opinion/feedback about these features and if they fit to
> Mailman's
> web interface.
>
> Best regards,
> Peter Markou.
>