Developers of Sympa

[Mark K <address@concealed>]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:00:32 +0100
Serge Aumont <address@concealed> wrote:

> Mark K a écrit :
> >   I am planning on using SOAP to list the mailing
> > lists associated with a sourceforge project by making a topic for
> > each project that creates mailing lists.  However, there is no
> > interface whatsoever that I see in wwsympa, sympa, or SOAP to edit
> > topics.  It seems one has to just edit etc/topics.conf manually. 
> >
> > So, for the time being I have written a short perl script to do that
> > which I may turn into a module to be used by sympa.pl which I could
> > send upstream to you guys.  I am wondering whether it might make
> > more sense to put topics into the DB, though.  It would make it
> > easier to manage them instead of having to slurp a file in and out
> > for every topic change.
> >   
> You are rigth. topics should be managed via Sympa web interface. It
> is part of the admin interface we want to improve. Of course it could
> be easier to develop it if topics.conf is replaced by a new table in
> Sympa database. Soap interface for that ? Why not.
> > It might also be cool to allow topics to be generated via include2
> > to be a bit more flexible.  This could cause issues when a topic
> > that a list belongs to might disappear I suppose...
> >   
> I can't figure the relation of include2 with topics ? Do you mean
> that topics should be defined by LDAP and/or RDBMS queries ?
> 
That they could be, yes.  In my case, using sympa with sourceforge, I
could link sympa topics with software trove categories stored in the Pg
backend.

> Please could you describe the requested features in the our forge : 
> https://sourcesup.cru.fr/tracker/?group_id=23
>
I'll do so.
 
> Serge Aumont


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Mark K