[Mailman-Developers] [GSoC 2014] Mailman CLI Project

[Barry Warsaw]

On May 13, 2014, at 01:45 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>In the model Rajeev has shown so far, the "scope" argument (list,
>domain, user) hasn't been optional.

If it's truly non-optional in the sense that there's no default, and the scope
is required, then maybe it's okay.  It just doesn't look "normal" to me.

> > mmclient set --key <name> --value <value>
>
>This seems unnecessarily verbose on the one hand, and to not actually
>correspond to an actual use case, on the other: there's no scope
>mentioned.  I feel the scope should be mandatory, even if it's
>sitewide:
>
>    mmclient set --site-wide --key CAN_PERSONALIZE --value No
>    mmclient set --domain=python.org --key CAN_PERSONALIZE --value Yes

This seems different than what Rajeev wrote, where he mentions that the
'setting' argument is the scope:

On May 11, 2014, at 10:37 PM, Rajeev S wrote:

>*Preferences/settings*
>
>Settings would form a new `scope`, commands for which can be implemented
>in a fairly straightforward way.
>
>mmclient set setting <setting name> --value <value>

On May 13, 2014, at 01:45 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>(after the first one, the second would be an error, I guess, but in
>other cases a site-wide setting would be interpreted as a default).
>
>I guess this horse has already bolted the barn, but I wonder about a
>syntax like
>
>    mmclient set --site-wide --key PERSONALIZE --value Permitted
>    mmclient set --domain=python.org --key PERSONALIZE --value Permitted
>    mmclient set --list=mailman-users at python.org --key PERSONALIZE --value No

I think that would be fine (probably --site is sufficient, and a bit
shorter).  Also I would suggest allowing either List-ID or posting address as
an argument to --list, e.g. --list=mailman-users.python.org would also be
acceptable.  Usually there will be no difference, but lists can be renamed and
the List-ID will never change.

Cheers,
-Barry
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