[Systers-dev] Fwd: [Mailman-Users] [Mailman-Developers] openID enabled mailman

[Jennifer Redman]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Sarah Mei <sarahmei at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm reading through the wiki, and I'm a bit confused about the ORM project.
>
> It sounds like the Systers mailman data is already in postgres (not in
> pickle files). The ORM project is abstracting a layer between mailman
> and postgres (via storm) so that there isn't so much custom code in
> mailman.
>
> All pretty straightforward. Where I get confused is when we're talking
> about writing a MembershipAdaptor, which can be swapped out in mailman
> for the standard one, for use in the OpenID proejct. Will that use the
> generated ORM objects, or is it part of the ORM project? If membership
> data is already in postgres, does the Systers mailman codebase already
> have a nonstandard MembershipAdaptor?


No.  That is what Malveeka is working on first.  Right now we have some of
the user data in postgres -- just what is needed for dlist operation.  There
is an existing MySQLmembershipAdaptor (somewhat abandoned) for MM that
Malveeka is using as a model.


> And on a more or less separate note, is the code available anywhere? I
> suspect most of these questions could be answered if I spent an hour
> looking at the customized code.


http://launchpad.net/systers

Jen