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

[Florian Fuchs]

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On 03/03/2014 03:11 PM, Rajeev S wrote:
> Hi Florian,
> 
> I had discussed about the full anonymization project with Stephen
> and I had found that I had quite misunderstood the use case of that
> project.
> 
> So I have decided to go forward with applying for the mailman
> command line client project.
> 
> The deliverables of the project would be, at the least,
> 
> * Command line tools to perform tasks in the mailman client docs *
> Any Extra useful functionalities that can be identified, such as 
> export, backup * Other Useful tools like backup and restore. * Man
> Page entries for the new commands

Sounds good! But make sure to mark steps 2 to 4 as optional.

> Also, I did not quite get the "/coming up with a //great layout /"
> part. Do you mean to build a custom shell for mailman? If yes, what
> extra functionality should it provide than the standard command
> line tools?

I don't know if I would call it a shell, but something like that, yes.
I talked about it with Patrick Koetter a while ago (who is also a
possible mentor for this project), and we had something *a little*
similar to the mysql/sqlite3 client in mind. Similar meaning: You
start the client (possibly providing some context option, like the
database used) and then perform operations on a given context/object
(in our case: lists, users, addresses, preferences) using predefined
commands.

Ideally, the application makes all operations pretty easy, by using
auto-completion, a good help function etc.

This is just a rough idea though, maybe you can come up with a better
one... ;-)


Florian
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