Re: mailman customization not quite right yet

["Martin Liška" <mliska@suse.cz>]

On 4/3/20 10:52 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 12:42:45PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I'll generate this rpm + patches along with instructions on how to do it
>> in the future.
> 
> I tried testing the, I think, least intrusive part of this patch set:
> 
> diff --git a/templates/en/archidxentry.html b/templates/en/archidxentry.html
> index f9bb57a..365e836 100644
> --- a/templates/en/archidxentry.html
> +++ b/templates/en/archidxentry.html
> @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
> +<I>%(datestr)s
> +</I>
>   <LI><A HREF="%(filename)s">%(subject)s
>   </A><A NAME="%(sequence)i">&nbsp;</A>
>   <I>%(author)s
> 
> It didn't work right after regenerating the test-list archive.  It
> resulted in a web page that looked like (cut from the web page):
> 
>      2020 Archives by date
> 
>          Messages sorted by: [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
>          More info on this list...
> 
>      Starting: Sun Feb 9 02:40:00 GMT 2020
>      Ending: Fri Apr 3 17:28:10 GMT 2020
>      Messages: 37
> 
>      >>>>    %(datestr)s  <<<<
>          Test   Christopher Faylor via test-list %(datestr)s
>          Inspect headers   Christopher Faylor %(datestr)s
> 
> i.e., the %{datestr}s is being treated literally.  I don't think that
> the template change relies on the rest of the patch so this isn't
> doing what we'd think.

Hello.

Thank you for the testing of my patch! Yes, it looks there's a missing
exported datestr variably.

> 
> I do have an rpm built with these changes but it obviously isn't quite
> ready for prime time.
> 
> I have been experimenting with adding an extra "recent" entry in the
> mailing list that looks more like ezmlm.  You can see it here:
> 
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/test-list/2020/recent.html
> 
> When turned on, it adds a "[ recent ]" link to appropriate pages.
> Clicking on mailto's on the summary page open your mailer with the
> mailing list in the To:, the original sender in the Cc: (since I now
> understand that this is really important), and appropriate In-Reply-To's
> to maintain threading.
> 
> I accomplish this by running a perl script whenever mailman has finished
> with a "post" operation.  The script iterates over the html message
> files to produce an ezmlm-like archive.  This isn't perfect yet but I
> thought I'd offer it as a possible alternative to patching mailman.

... but I must confirm that this looks nice and I bet other people will
like it as well. I support that.

Thanks,
Martin

> 
> cgf
>