[consulting] the Ultimate forum based Malinglist Manager (Re: [drupalART-dev] Hey guys, )

[Bèr Kessels]

Hello,

All around the place I see people looking for solutions to get 
forum-Mailinglist integration. Its one of the most demanded features for 
grassroots and or consultatnts. Yet it seems to be the hardes to achieve. To 
achieve properly, i mean. 
All around the place I read about small alpha-works-for-me modules. Or rather 
hard to achieve combinations of special modules, configurations of your ml 
system, build on top of rather strange mailserver configurations. All these 
hacks ar actually the cause of the problem that there is no good solution,
Example: I have successfully hacked ezmlmj into my drupal forums: It works, 
but is not too secure. Nor will it scale vdery well. But because it works for 
me, i feel no need to fix up that module and make it more general.

I know choice is good. But ATM we have only bads to choose from. I therefore 
think we should work on one working solution. So here is my proposal
:* team up with about 5 people on irc/jabber/skype and write down a good list 
of demands. what do we want, how do we want it and what do we not want.
* team up with all the people we can get together. I am sure that with 
Civicspace in this, we will get over a hundred people.
* invite one or two drupal coders. 
* do a fundraise based on what thos coders think they need to get this done.
* Pay the coders fro+ that fundraise
* release this forum_ml.module (or maybe even bundle of modules) as The One 
Solution. 
* Write good solid documentation for debian/gentoo/?? to get that one chosen 
ML manager configured to work with this module .... 
* Write good solid documentation on how to configure your drupal system to 
talk to that ml manager,

If people like this then please let someone stand up and take the lead in 
this; I am very interested, but have too little time to truly devote myself 
to this; If i have to take this on, I fear I will be the main bottleneck :)

Regards, 
Ber (who would also love proper ML integration to replace his ez mlmmj hacks)


Op donderdag 29 december 2005 03:15, schreef Ivan Storck:
> I agree, even if you think it is a hack, it would be very greatly
> appreciated by many, I am sure. And you could find someone to refine
> the code...
>
> -
> Ivan Storck
> www.SustainableMarketing.com
>
> On Dec 28, 2005, at 11:21 AM, Ryan Grace wrote:
> > Hey there,
> >   considering that the email_list_mailman module in CVS is a security
> > hazard
> >   and  mlist.module offers no interface,
> >   your hack is the best hope we have right now...
> >   it will look very nice on the homepage of my organic groups allowing
> > members of the group to signup for the list.
> >
> > cool.
> > ryan.
> > thefractal.org
> >
> > zirafa wrote:
> >> Hey guys,
> >>
> >> Actually my method of forum email integration is a terrible hack.
> >> I can post it, but it is a really poor long term solution since I
> >> made my own php forms from scratch, etc....I will try posting it
> >> this week.
> >>
> >> Farsheed
> >>
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