[Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Barry Warsaw writes:
 > On Feb 20, 2015, at 07:25 PM, Andrew Stuart wrote:
 > 
 > >It’s workable as a part of the auth proxy but feels like it would fit better
 > >in the Mailman core database since the data is so tightly bound to Mailman
 > >resources.  It’ll need an effective replication mechanism to ensure
 > >consistency with Mailman which is a challenge I’m not relishing solving.
 > 
 > Do you think this has to be integrated into the core for 3.0?  I'd still
 > prefer to keep it separate for better experimentation and testing.  If the
 > design and API proves stable, then perhaps it'll make sense to integrate it
 > with the core for 3.1.

I don't which way this argues, but Mailman 3 already needs "effective
replication mechanisms" because Postorius and HyperKitty both add to
the basic database schema.