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

[Robin Jeffries]

I'll give Terri Oda a chance to discuss this herself, but she's the person
in the mailman community who a) wrote that message and b) is the lead on
improving the archives.  And she is going to be a mentor for our archives
project (so it's joint between systers and mailman).

that email will give you a good starting point.  You might also want to
think about how the dlist environment impacts archiving.

I think that we should be talking about requirements at this point -- what
use cases do archives need to cover -- and then how does that lead to
technology choices?  For example, why do people want to use search (some
examples: find a message they remember reading, find all previous
discussions on a topic) and how do those different cases lead to different
requirements for either specifying a search or for search output?

Robin

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:16 AM, kartik rustagi <kashes911 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
> --
> Regards
> Kartik Rustagi
>
>
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