Developers of Sympa

["Scott Balmos" <address@concealed>]

All of these points have been covered in a more cleaned up patch-set that
I've been working on over the weekend. This patch-set has been
successfully installed on my server and is running flawlessly so far. One
thing I will need help with from CRU and others is any migration concerns,
since all my lists are include2-type lists.

I will submit the new patch-set within a few more days. Afterwards, I'll
look into back-porting it to 4.1.x. This week's schedule is not looking
very friendly. :/

--Scott

> As announced, we've added a CVS branch for the full virtual robot
> developments ; here it is :
> http://sourcesup.cru.fr/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/sympa/?cvsroot=sympa&only_with_tag=sympa-fullvr
>
> To answer your question here are the things that have been or will
> evolve to allow full virtual robot support :
>
>     * subscriber_table and admin_table need and additional robot_xx field
>     * in List.pm all subroutines using the database (select, insert or
>       update) should be extended
>     * almost all file format in spools need to be extended (with
>       backward compatibility). Associated subroutines should also be
> changed
>     * everywhere we used just the listname, we now should refer to the
>       list object
>     * everywhere we perform a 'new List' we should now provide a robot
>       parameter
>     * List.pm : %list_of_lists, rename_list_db, get_which_db need to be
>       changed
>     * lots of work in the task_manager...
>
> Since virtual robot appear everywhere in Sympa, these changes can break
> almost all features. We'll have to be carefull !
>
> Scott Balmos wrote:
>
>> Moving over to the dev list, now that I'm subscribed there also...
>>
>> Out of curiosity, what other changes do you think are still needed? As
>> far as I could tell, the patches cover what's necessary for extending
>> Sympa itself. I have yet to check WWSympa, or extend the templates.
>> Those are probably the ones needing robot hostname additions, or maybe
>> changing the parser to put list@robot instead of just list for the
>> [list.name] template tag.
>>
>> I'm looking at the rest of the code this morning, and I'll see what I
>> can do.
>>
>>> We are currently working at making the full virtual robot support
>>> available, as a background job. The changes are important, including
>>> the ones you suggested.
>>>
>>> We have currently done more than half of the job. We'll send more
>>> information about these developments in the sympa-dev mailing list.
>>> We'll also think about creating a CVS branch for it ASAP...
>>
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> Olivier Salaün
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Scott Balmos
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