[Mailman-Developers] [GSoC 2014] Command line Client

[Florian Fuchs]

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On 02/25/2014 03:17 AM, Rajeev S wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am Rajeev S , A CSE Undergrad from India. I would like to work
> with the Command Line client project listed in the GSoC ideas
> page.
> 
> I have been working on the Postorious package lately and have
> managed to make some tweaks in it, like the add users by file
> upload and an improved email validator.
> 
> As a part of the project, I would like to build,at the minimum,
> the functionalities listed at the 
> mailmain.client/src/mailmanclient/docs/using.txt
> 
> Can the mentor of this project elaborate upon the requirements of
> the project?

I think the functionalities listed in the mailman.client docs are a
good orientation point, because those represent almost everything the
core REST API currently exposes. It also makes sense to use
mailman.client instead of writing new code that handles the HTTP stuff
and object binding.

I guess the most difficult part of this project is coming up with a
great "layout", possibly borrowing stuff from other well-known command
line clients (mutt, mysql/sqlite3, the ipython shell, lynx etc.).

Of course there are bonus points for all kinds of stuff, like
exporting data to files/stdout, making the tool extensible etc. But I
really think designing the right interface and implementing most or
all of what mailman.client can do will take a good amount time.

> Also I have thought of an approach for the full anonymization
> project.Is it possible that I can work on both of these as a single
> project?(I have a feeling that the CLI is a small project, am I
> right?)

You should definitely pick one project and come up with good ideas for
that.


Cheers
Florian
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