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DO NOT EDIT. --> +<!-- Thu Dec 26 22:30:21 2002 --> +<!-- USING HT2HTML 2.0 --> +<!-- SEE http://ht2html.sf.net --> +<!-- User-specified headers: +Title: Mailman Developer Resources + +--> + +<head> +<title>Mailman Developer Resources</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> +<meta name="generator" content="HT2HTML/2.0"> +<style type="text/css"> +body { margin: 0px; } +</style> +</head> +<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" + marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" + link="#0000bb" vlink="#551a8b" + alink="#ff0000"> +<!-- start of page table --> +<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> +<!-- start of banner row --> +<tr> +<!-- start of corner cells --> +<td width="150" valign="middle" bgcolor="white" class="corner"> + +<center> + <a href="./index.html"> + <img border=0 src="./images/logo-70.jpg"></a></center> </td> +<td width="15" bgcolor="#eecfa1"> </td><!--spacer--> +<!-- end of corner cells --> +<!-- start of banner --> +<td width="90%" bgcolor="#eecfa1" class="banner"> +<!-- start of site links table --> +<table width="100%" border="0" +CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 + bgcolor="#ffffff"> +<tr> + <td bgcolor="#eecfa1"> +<a href="./index.html">Home</a> + </td> + <td bgcolor="#eecfa1"> +<a href="./docs.html">Documentation</a> + </td> + <td bgcolor="#eecfa1"> +<a href="./lists.html">Mailing lists</a> + </td> +</tr><tr> + <td bgcolor="#eecfa1"> +<a href="./help.html">Help</a> + </td> + <td bgcolor="#eecfa1"> +<a href="./download.html">Download</a> + </td> + <td bgcolor="#eecfa1"> +<b>Developers</b> + </td> +</tr> +</table><!-- end of site links table --> + +</td><!-- end of banner --> +</tr><!-- end of banner row --> +<tr><!-- start of sidebar/body row --> +<!-- start of sidebar cells --> +<td width="150" valign="top" bgcolor="#eecfa1" class="sidebar"> +<!-- start of sidebar table --> +<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" + bgcolor="#ffffff"> +<tr><td bgcolor="#36648b"><b><font color="#ffffff"> +Developer Exits +</font></b></td></tr> +<tr><td bgcolor="#eecfa1"> +<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mailman">SourceForge Project Page</a> +</td></tr> +<tr><td bgcolor="#eecfa1"> +<a href="http://www.zope.org/Members/bwarsaw/MailmanDesignNotes/">Mailman Wiki</a> +</td></tr> +<tr><td bgcolor="#eecfa1"> +<a href="http://www.zope.org/Members/bwarsaw/MailmanDesignNotes/MailmanThreePointOh">Mailman 3.0 Wiki</a> +</td></tr> +<tr><td bgcolor="#eecfa1"> +<a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers">mailman-developers list</a> +</td></tr> +<tr><td bgcolor="#eecfa1"> +<a href="http://demo.iuveno-net.de/iuveno/Products/ZMailman/">ZMailman</a> +</td></tr> +<tr><td bgcolor="#eecfa1"> +<tr><td bgcolor="#36648b"><b><font color="#ffffff"> +Email Us +</font></b></td></tr> +<tr><td bgcolor="#eecfa1"> +<a href="mailto:mailman-users@python.org">mailman-users@python.org</a> +</td></tr> +<tr><td bgcolor="#eecfa1"> + +</td></tr> +<tr><td bgcolor="#eecfa1"> +<a href="http://www.python.org/"><img border=0 + src="./images/PythonPoweredSmall.png" + ></a> <a href="http://sourceforge.net"><img + src="http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=103" + width="88" height="31" border="0" + alt="SourceForge Logo"></a> +</td></tr> +<tr><td bgcolor="#eecfa1"> + +</td></tr> +<tr><td bgcolor="#eecfa1"> +© 1998-2002 +Free Software Foundation, Inc. Verbatim copying and distribution of this +entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. + +</td></tr> +</table><!-- end of sidebar table --> + +</td> +<td width="15"> </td><!--spacer--> +<!-- end of sidebar cell --> +<!-- start of body cell --> +<td valign="top" width="90%" class="body"><br> +<h3>Developer Resources</h3> + +If you're the kind of person who loves to get elbow deep in code, +there are lots of opportunities to dig into Mailman. You may want to +find a project on our Mailman +<a href="todo.html">TODO list</a> or on the +<a href="http://www.zope.org/Members/bwarsaw/MailmanDesignNotes/">Mailman +design notes wiki</a>. Because Wikis are intended to be +collaborative, you're free to contribute to this page in true Wiki +fashion. You will also definitely want to subscribe +to the <a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers" +>mailman-developers</a> mailing list. + +<h3>SourceForge Project Page</h3> + +Developers should start with the +<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mailman">Mailman project at +SourceForge</a>. All patches and bugs should be submitted here so +they won't get lost, although it is also requested that you inform the +mailman-developers list about your submissions. + +<h3>IRC</h3> + +Some of the Mailman developers also occasionally hang out on the +<em>mailman</em> IRC channel at openprojects.net, though attendance +has been spotty lately. + +<!--table-stop--> + +<h3>Future plans</h3> + +Now that Mailman 2.1 has been released, I want to start thinking about +what will be in <a +href="http://www.zope.org/Members/bwarsaw/MailmanDesignNotes/MailmanThreePointOh">Mailman +3.0</a>. I intend to use the wiki for most design artifacts, and the +mailman-developers mailing list for most discussions. The items that +are high on my list (which is by no means complete or definitive) +include: + +<ul> +<li><b>Consolidated user database</b> -- A user should have just one +account for every mailing list they are members of at a site, and they +should be able to manage all their options through this account. +It should be possible to integrate these databases with a site's +existing user management system to reduce duplication of data and +effort. + +<p><li><b>Unified template system</b> -- Mailman has a somewhat fractured +and inconvenient templating system, using both a homegrown HTML object +model in Python and coarse templates filled in with data at rendering +time. It can be near impossible to change the look and feel of the +administration pages, and a small change to the u/i of other pages +requires updates in all supported languages. I want to use a +templating system like +<a href="http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZPT/">ZPT</a> or +<a href="http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/quixote/">Quixote</a>. +Actually, I plan to generalize the web interface so that many different +templating systems could be used, although we'll pick one to ship by +default. + +<p><li><b>A Real Database</b> -- Mailman uses an inefficient persistency +system based on Python pickles, and every mailing list has its own +pickled state. This has several disadvantages, including poor +scalability, difficulty in doing cross-mailing list operations, and +the virtual host limitation on list names. Mailman 3.0 will use a +real database, perhaps based on +<a href="http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/">ZODB</a> or +<a href="http://www.sleepycat.com">BerkeleyDB</a>. Again, the goal is +to generalize the interface to the backend database so that others can +be used, but choose one and ship it by default. + +<p><li><b>Component Architecture</b> -- Zope3's +<a href="http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/" +>component architecture</a> provides some very nice organizational +tools and software development methodologies. We'll be adopting many +of these for Mailman 3.0, which will allow us to do the kinds of +templating and database generalization described above. +</ul> + +Stephan Richter has let an effort called +<a href="http://demo.iuveno-net.de/iuveno/Products/ZMailman/" +>ZMailman</a> for integrating Zope and Mailman. I consider this a +proof of concept of some of the ideas outlined above. + +</td><!-- end of body cell --> +</tr><!-- end of sidebar/body row --> +</table><!-- end of page table --> +</body></html> |