Developers of Sympa

[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

Mark Valiukas wrote:
> > What user interface do you imagine to allow
> > moderators to choose a category ? 
> >   
> [...]
> email-based: a whole lot of ugly mailto links for "distribute this, but
> stick it in such-and-such category". [...]
Then you'll have to extend the number of arguments for the DISTRIBUTE
mail command.
> [...]
> > another approach would be to make the author
> > explicitely tell what category the message in related to ; maybe it is
> > too constraining for authors. 
> >   
> We have enough trouble convincing some people that they need to log in
> to read their messages when they're off-campus - 
> getting them to include a "category code" in the subject line is a
> battle that we could not win. 
Ok.

Dealing with list config parameter, we'd suggest a parameter organized
as a paragraph for each category :
> category
> name linux
> keywords red hat,linux,debian
> description About Linux operating system

This parameter would be defined as follows in the %List::pinfo hash
(title_id entries are incorrect) :
>         'category' => {'format' => {'name' =>
> {'format' => '\w+'
>                                                                     
> 'length' =>15,
>                                                                     
> 'occurrence' => '1',
>                                                                     
> 'title_id' => 58,
>                                                                     
> 'order' => 1
>                                                                      },
>                                                    'keywords' =>
> {'format' => '[^,]+', # Everything BUT a ','
>                                                                        
>     'occurrence' => '1-n', # May have multiple keywords for one
> category
>                                                                        
>     'split_char' => ',',
>                                                                       
>      'title_id' => 59,
>                                                                       
>      'order' =>2
>                                                                       
>     },
>                                                     'title' =>
> {'format' => '.+',
>                                                                    
> 'length' => 35,
>                                                                    
> 'title_id' => 60,
>                                                                    
> 'order' => 3
>                                                                    }
>                                             },
>                      'occurrence' => '0-n', # May define multiple
> categories for one list
>                      'title_id' => 57,
>                      'group' => 'data_source' # Defines in which
> admin web page this parameter will appear
>                 },
Once you've added this to the %List::pinfo hash, Sympa will be able to
load, edit and save this parameter. You'll access it in the code as
follows :
> my $list = new List 'blabla';
> foreach my $category (@{$list->{'admin'}{'category'}) {
>     my $keywords = join ',', @{$category->{'keywords'}};
>     &do_log('notice', 'Category %s : keywords=%s ; title=%s',
> $category->{'name'}, $keywords, $category->{'title'};
> }

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Olivier Salaun
Comite Reseau des Universites