Dearest mail manipulating macaques and perambulating python prestidigitators,
I have been blessed by the grace of Google and so am working full-time on improving Mailman's web UI: http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Summer+of+Code In order to provide interfaces to archives, I believe I must perform some intermediary manipulation; my goal is to get the information contained within the .mbox files mailman generates into ElementTrees and other objects so as to represent them via HTML/RSS/Atom/etc. This is slightly out of scope for the web-UI project, as it is mostly about data model rather than actual user interface. In the interest of not reinventing the wheel, I'm looking for existing python (or other!) code that does the things I need. I'm also putting out a call for anybody who likes this sort of thing to help me out (see below). Here's where I'm at, grouped functionally: * Need to convert rfc8222 to xml/html I haven't found anything substantial via searching. My next step is to go spelunking in MailManager code and other python-webmail packages. If anyone knows good trees in this forest, please clue me in. * Want to provide feeds (rss/atom/YourMommasSyntaxFormat) Right this second I'm planning on using pyfeed [1]; is there anything else I should consider? [1] http://home.blarg.net/~steveha/pyfeed.html * mbox thread indexing on messages I plan on using [2] to generate mbox thread indexes for rapid navigation of lists. Any suggestions for more robust variants would be welcome; feedback on how to handle threading for message-id-less messages would also be welcome. [2] http://benno.id.au/code/archiver/jwzthreading.py * full-text indexing pylucene seems to be the obvious choice; anything else I should consider? Anyone know of good pylucene/web UI glue code out there? (eg. something that leverages knowledge of the index to provide suggested keywords/tag cloud and/or tab-completion) As to help, I am first and foremost interested in someone willing to write renderers as above and check it in to my branch. I am also, however, interested in any advice, suggestions, dear-gods-whatever-you-do-don't-do-x comments, critiques of what is already checked in (zero python code, much html so far), pats on the back or other goodies (snailmail address available on request ;) I do ask that you send anything not related to my above question directly to me, bypassing the list; I'd also humbly ask you to read the wiki page before telling me I should do XYZ; I may already be doing it. I'm not actually subbed to python-list because I lack the stamina, so please cc: me on any follow ups. Thank you for your generous assistance, ~ethan fremen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
