Developers of Sympa

[Olivier Salaun <address@concealed>]

Hi Sergiy,

Sergiy Zhuk wrote:

> Just wondering if you have any plans to add archive expiration.
> Quotas are nice, but they don't solve the problem of removing old stuff in
> case you're close or over the quota.

This is in our TODO list but more or less at its bottom :\

> If you don't have time to implement it, what would be the best place to add 
> it to ?
> task manager ?

Exactly.
Each list should have a new 'expire_task' parameter in the 'web_archive'.
Example :
        web_archive
          access private
          quota 1024
          expire_task yearly

The default value for 'expire_task' list parameter would be a 
'default_expire_web_archive_task'
sympa.conf parameter.

To make you save some time, here is how 'web_archive' entry should look like 
in %List::pinfo :
'web_archive'  => {'format' => {
                     'access' => {'scenario' => 'access_web_archive',
                                  'title_id' => 84,
                                  'order' => 1
                                },
                     'quota' => {'format' => '\d+',
                                 'default' => {'conf' => 
'default_archive_quota'},
                                 'length' => 8,
                                 'unit' => 'Kbytes',
                                 'title_id' => 204,
                                 'order' => 2
                        },
                     'expire_task' => {'task' => 'web_archive_expire',
                                       'default' => {'conf' => 
'default_expire_web_archive_task'},
                                       'title_id' => 205,
                                       'order' => 3
                        },
                   'title_id' => 83,
                   'group' => 'archives'
                   },


> Also curious if you're planning to add include/database mixed type lists
> into the new major version.
> Currently this is the biggest limitation of sympa along with huge memory
> consumption in case of include type lists.
> I have around 1,400 lists and only 140 of them use 'include' as the data 
> source.
> 4 sympa processes (2 cgi + sympa + task_manager) take about 600Mb...

We definitely plan to do these developments this summer.
BTW we might need some beta testers in next july...

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Olivier Salaün
Comité Réseau des Universités