Developers of Sympa

[Thomas Berry <address@concealed>]

Olivier Salaün - CRU wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Thomas Berry wrote:
> >   I just upgraded to the latest release of Sympa: 5.3b.4 from the svn 
> > repository.
> >
> >   For lists that were automatically created, it isn't apparent how to 
> > update the lists when changes are made to their family configuration.
> Currently the only way to trigger list families update is via the 
> "sympa.pl --modify_list" command (to update a single list) or "sympa.pl 
> --instantiate_family" (to update all lists belonging to the family).
> >   You'll remember that we added a dynamic list settings within the 
> > config.tt2 of the family using the TT Plugin function to take 
> > advantage of some of the list's settings that are stored in the LDAP 
> > directory. 

  This family's lists were created with Sympa's automatic list creation 
feature; for this reason, the family and its lists do not have an XML 
input file needed to use ./sympa.pl --instantiate_family and 
--modify_list options.

  As for the family configuration, we've added a TT2 Plugin to the 
family's list configuration (config.tt2).  When a list gets 
instantiated, some of the mailing list's settings are read from an LDAP 
directory entry with the same name as the mailing list.  Each mailing 
list starts out as an LDAP entry that contains some of the more basic 
Sympa configuration options, such as send and review, in addition to the 
members of the mailing list.  This is also the reason we need the list 
configurations to be updated, since the owner of the LDAP entry has the 
ability to change the list settings after the list is created.  We want 
 the list owners to manage their LDAP entries (and list configuration) 
from a single interface created for LDAP entries; this means we need to 
prevent List owners from using the more extensive Sympa web interface 
for mailing list configuration changes.

  I'm hoping to come up with some solution, as I need to introduce the 
LDAP/list integration to our users by mid-May.  It looks like I may need 
to dissect the "automatic list creation" code from Sympa to build a 
stand-alone process that updates these lists periodically.  Unless 
someone has a better idea?

Thomas