--- Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
Hunter-
OR --hack in full and secure email responding into an already existing bbs like phpbb (which already supports email notification per topic AND which I am already comfortable with, as I've shown this list a patch that I made for it see phpbb-hpmods.sf.net)
The complexity of mailman/PHPBB interaction seems too high, and so would be the replication of the entire mailman functionality in PHPBB. Keep in mind that comments should only be plaintext, quotes need to be done email style (">foo"), linebreaks should be inserted automatically, message references need to be retained, messages sent to the mailing list need to appear in the PHPBB etc.
Nono, when i said:
The two paths to take right now are: --hack in (of find some patches for) to mailman some better functionality for the webbased
view.
(see examples at the zesty or google groups link provided on http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_media)
OR --hack in full and secure email responding into an already existing bbs like phpbb (which already supports email notification per topic AND which I am already comfortable with, as I've shown this list a patch that I made for it see phpbb-hpmods.sf.net)
Each of those steps would be to make one act more like other. This implies developing one of the paths to the point where an acceptable system is achieved. As I have shown, there are no worries to be had about this potentially precarious process as I have already hacked through phpbb, and I am a pythoneer, thus am very comfortable with the internals of mailman.
I suggest taking a look at ways to improve the mailman web interface to allow members to post through it. I have not seen posting functionality at the Scipy example site you linked to, but it did have search functionality -- perhaps you could send the patches for that to wikitech-l and ask for the functionality to be added to our installed mailman package.
Noted
As I have requested many times now, could I please be granted an admin account so I can start this work in a most transparent way.
Please be specific in what kind of access you want. A shell account on the Wikipedia server? Why? If you patch mailman to support the above, it would be perfectly reasonable to do so by sending a patch. I don't have a shell account either and have never needed one.
I have already presented why:specifically to conduct my research and development on the wikipedia machine in a completely open fashion. I have monitered the lists here over time, and there has even been a thread about granting everyone on wikipedia shell access. Were this idea fact by this point, I would have had a shell account 7 months ago.
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