[Mailman-Developers] Regarding Subscriber profile pages project
Ashish Kumar
coolyashish at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 19:05:02 CET 2015
Hi,
I will surely submit my proposal by the end of 20th March. Actually I am
busy in my mid term exams, It will end on 20th morning. I will submit it
thereafter. Thanks for your response. I will discuss more about it later.
Thanks
Ashish Kumar
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>
wrote:
> Ashish Kumar writes:
>
> > 1. Use of different email addresses - so called aliases - for sending
> > emails: This is a good point as a user perspective. We will give user an
> > option to save an email address and out of the entered email address we
> > will ask which email address he/she want to use for sending email. I
> think
> > we can extend this feature for moderators and owners too.
>
> I don't see how you plan to do this. Picking the right alias is a MUA
> function, not a list function. Please be more specific about the
> workflow you have in mind. "Have aliases" sounds good, but what does
> this mean for the user's actions and the system's responses? If you
> just mean multiple subscriptions under different addresses, Mailman
> has always allowed that (it's impossible to prevent), and made it
> convenient by providing a "no mail" flag for the address.
>
> > 2. Dynamic list: It is also another idea for subscribers.
>
> This is a separate project.
>
> > 3. There is also a feature about essay. The essay feature can be
> enabled by
> > the list creator when creating the list, and at the same time the list
> > creator can choose which questions to ask. The default when enabling
> this
> > feature are the questions used for the Systers maillist but by simply
> > editing the field with the questions the list creator can choose to have
> > other questions instead. [ Reference : Above link]
>
> I think you'll find that editing is not so simple. Users will not do
> this right. Many cannot handle simple formatting rules like
> reStructuredText or Markdown. So you will need to provide an
> interface that automatically numbers the questions, allows the user
> to insert, delete, edit, and reorder questions, and "cleans" the
> question (eg stripping leading and trailing whitespace) as well as
> allowing an optional/required setting per question. Bonus points for
> a device that allows the questions asked to depend on previous
> answers. Perhaps content length constraints (maximum for most
> questions, minimum for essay) per question. Image uploads (must be
> able to validate!!) All answers must be validated.
>
> > I have a doubt if essay feature can be part of subscriber's profile
> > page.
>
> Yes, it should be. Systers has been a good citizen in our community,
> it would be bad if we borrowed some of their ideas but didn't provide
> a pretty complete set of their features and they had to continue their
> fork just to get basic features.
>
> Barry also has dreams of making Mailman a community center that
> obsoletes web fora and maybe even Facebook. Even though we were just
> joking when we talked about that, I think these features make a lot of
> sense for many communities, not just Systers.
>
> Please submit a proposal on Melange, addressing most of the points
> above. If you're still not sure this is the project you want to do,
> check GSoC but I believe you're allowed to submit up to 5 proposals
> total and no rule against more than one to same org. If you feel very
> unsure about it, say so, but putting it in Melange makes it a lot
> easier to manage because it's a single design and plan. ML
> discussions without such a focus don't work well.
>
>
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