Re: mailman customization not quite right yet

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org>]

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.

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.

cgf