[Systers-dev] [Gsoc10] Improve Mailman Archive Access/Searching

[kartik rustagi]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Anna Granudd <anna.granudd at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> If you want to setup the current Systers config with Mailman 2.1.10, I'd
> recomend you to go straight for the older version of Ubuntu (8.04) and
> Python 2.5 and not waste your time on the newer versions. I did the same
> mistake last year and halfway through I noticed I could get no further due
> to the (old) version of Mailman. For instructions on the installation,
> please see
> http://systers.org/systers-soc/doku.php/step_by_step_system_installation.
> It should contain all the extra packages added last year and I think it's up
> to date.
>
> Best regards,
> Anna
>

Sure thing

Also I received a suggestion from Nandeep (Thanks) regarding keeping the
dependencies of any probable solution minimum. But before we go into the
detailed implementation of any feature we need to know what all features are
mailman developers working on. While doing a search regarding any previous
discussion regarding archiving/searching, I found the following thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers@python.org/msg10396.html

Its quite an old discussion but they essentially discuss archiving/searching
in mailman. Has anyone over here interacted with mailman developers
regarding the status of any ongoing effort (if any) in this direction? If
not then I believe this is the right time to get them in the loop.

Regarding the searching feature, there were some efforts in the past and
some patches in this regard do exist. But most of them are defunct and based
on dependencies which are no longer supported. I think the final output of
the search should look some thing like this:
http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers@python.org/

I am right now concentrating my efforts on getting a hang of the code and
will try to solve some of the Bug fixes listed as a part of the GSOC
application by Systers.



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Regards
Kartik Rustagi