Developers of Sympa

[Cove Schneider <address@concealed>]

How far into the future is this? 1 month, 6 months?

I'm trying to decided if I should just hang in there with Mailman a 
little longer and then migrate to Sympa 4 (~4.2), or if I should go 
ahead an migrate to Sympa 3.

Thanks,

Cove

On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 08:16 AM, Olivier Salaun - CRU wrote:

> I thought this information would be of interest for people working on 
> web templates customization :
> In parallel to Sympa 4 release, we are working on a version of Sympa ( 
> probably a 4.2) that does no more include language-specific elements 
> in web templates. The template format would slightly change to adopt 
> the TT2 template format (see http://www.template-toolkit.org/) and the 
> PO file format would be used for translations. Sympa would include 
> much less web templates and the customization job should become > easier.
>
> Here are 2 message, sent to sympa-translation ML, describing the new 
> design :
> http://listes.cru.fr/wws/arc/sympa-translation/2003-08/msg00000.html
> http://listes.cru.fr/wws/arc/sympa-translation/2003-08/msg00003.html
>
> We'll provide a script to migrate from previous templates to TT2.
> The main drawback of these changes, of course, is the big translation 
> job when shifting to PO file format.
>
> Elijah Saxon wrote:
>
> On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, address@concealed wrote:
>
>
> Are there any sites that have nice looking templates in public domain?
>
> [...]
>
> I don't really have the time to do something this elaborate on my 
> own...
> Any information or ideas would be welcome.
>
>
>
> I plan to make those downloadable soon, but it takes some work to make
> them general enough to be useful for other sites. (they will be GPL, 
> like
> sympa itself, not public domain).
>
> I created a simple meta-template system where language is removed, ie 
> instead of "My Subscriptions" the meta-templates hold 
> $mysubscriptions. Then, the meta-templates are 'rendered' to create 
> the templates in each language, for each domain.  There is also a 
> configuration file per domain which controls aspects of the rendering, 
> like how you want the front page displayed, the message you get after 
> creating a list, the header and
> footer, etc.
>
>
> --
> Olivier Salaun
> Comite Reseau des Universites