[Gsoc-mentors] Re: [Gsoc-students] Re: Gsoc-mentors Digest, Vol 1, Issue 2

Justizin justizin at siggraph.org
Tue Mar 20 18:40:01 UTC 2007


On 3/20/07, kamal.lists1 at mac.com <kamal.lists1 at mac.com> wrote:
> >So, to keep it short, yes, an e-mail-into-blog gateway could be very
> >powerful.  But, into blog? Nay.  Into Plone.  So optionally people
> >*can* respond directly to a message that comes out of Poi, or
> >participate in a Ploneboard via e-mail, probably using infrastructure
> >from Listen, etc..
>
> I probably should have labeled it as email-blogserver gateway, with blogserver=Plone.  This probably would have cleared up some confusion.
>
> The bottom line is to implement a feature set that would make Plone look more like Google Groups in the way it handles email-web convergence--and I agree that convergence is clearly the goal here.
>

In fairness, the OpenPlans folks have done this somewhat with listen,
and though I haven't had time to even really try to get it running
myself.

My understanding is that Listen use MailBoxer to pick up incoming
messages[1], which then go into an archive in Plone and are
distributed to subscribers.  the archive is discussable, but i think
this whole model can be even more flexible if split out.  In fact, I
have a UML model on it somewhere.  The idea was to have a few
modules:

  discuss notify listen track allocate/(assign) syndicate

which would serve as the foundation of ploneboard, listen, poi, etc..

In the past week I even had an idea that each conversation / issue /
comment / etc.. could potentially have a custom mail associated with
it, e.g.:

  respond-251652hc12h12h35123 at plone.org

I've worked on many issue trackers and other systems which notify
people by email.  When you deploy this to the general populous they
will respond to the mail directly and you have two choices:

  (a) browbeat them for not reading the "don't respond to this" note
  (b) write a frakking e-mail gateway

I would also *love* to mentor anyone interested in doing this, though
I take it kamal might want the reigns.

[1] btw spam protection is all the more important when pushing mails
into Plone.  We can't escape that.  Last thing you want is 9,000
archetypes a day with links to cialis stores.

-- 
Justin Alan Ryan
Director, Interaction Architecture
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