[Mailman-Developers] [Project Discussion] Approach for Implementing Admin Tasks

[Abhilash Raj]

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On Mon, 25 May 2015 17:19:17 +0530
Bhavesh Goyal <bhavesh.goyal093 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Widget Specifications:
> 
> The Tasks widget gives the admin, a list of pending tasks which
> require his immediate attention on the dashboard. The tasks
> particularly include those of 'Held Messages' (pending for
> moderation) and 'Subscription Requests'. A Task is added to the To -
> Do List for admin automatically, whenever a message sent by an user
> to a list is held for moderation or whenever a user makes a request
> for a subscription (through list-join).
> 
> That Being said,
> I ve made a prototype for The widget 'model' which adds a 'task'
> entry for the admin, whenever a new message is queued for moderation
> or a subscription request is made (through list-join). The model can
> then further be iterated to create views for postorius to generate
> list of all tasks to be displayed on the dashboard.
> 
> Approach :
> 
> The 'Tasks' model and the REST API used to query the model are
> implemented in the core

I think a better idea would be to keep everything in Postorius. Held
messages and subscription requests are already available through the
REST API, and hence can easily be used to create the `Tasks` model in
Postorius.
Barry, Florian thoughts?

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thanks,
Abhilash Raj
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