Re: [Postfixadmin-devel] Need help packinging postfixadmin from SVN sources

[Juan C. G. D. <jua...@pe...>]

  On 25/11/2010 06:54 a.m., David Goodwin wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Am Mittwoch, 24. November 2010 schrieb Juan Carlos Gutiérrez Deliot:
>>> I'm willing, for personal porpouse, to develop some new feature in
>>> postfixadmin, it's about exposing mailbox creation and password
>>> changing functionalities through web services in order to integrate
>>> a mail server with a portal.
>> Changing the password, the alias of a mailbox and switching vacaton
>> on/off is already available via XMLRPC (but disabled by default in the
>> config).
>>
>> Mailbox creation over XMLRPC sounds like a good feature.
>
> Ditto.
>
>
>> You should base your work on the files in the postfixadmin-cli directory
>> (that's a quite new command-line interface for postfixadmin), especially
>> on the model/* files. (Well, they should be merged with the "main"
>> model/* files, but that's another story ;-)
>>
>> postfixadmin-cli/model/UserHandler.php already contains functions to
>> create a mailbox. Your task will be to
>> a) implement admin login over XMLRPC (using a mailbox login is pointless
>>      when it comes to creating mailboxes ;-)
>> b) integrate the mailbox creation in the XMLRPC interface
>> c) make sure that you don't create any security holes ;-)
>>
>> If you need some inspiration how to use the XMLRPC interface, check the
>> squirrelmail plugin in the ADDITIONS directory.
>
> It's not overly friendly in setup atm - I'm not sure how many people
> have moved to using it - I've got one open 'support request' where
> someone's emailed me for help, and i've put off doing anything as I
> don't have time / motivation.
>
>
>> Just take the SVN checkout (or your edited version of it) and make a
>> tarball from it with tar czf.
>> In theory you could exclude the .svn directories from the tarball, but
>> in practise they won't hurt except taking some disk space ;-)
> Yes; 'internally' for development, please point the web server to an svn
> checkout of the source code. Once you're happy with your changes, send
> us a 'diff' file (e.g. 'svn diff>  patch.txt') and we'll merge it. Once
> we're vaguely happy that you're competent, we'll add you as a developer
> to the project, which will mean you can do what you like, when you like
> without an official approval stage.
>
>
>
>>> Finally, if you think eclipse is not the right tool to work with
>>> postfixadmin, I hope you can introduce me to "the official"
>>> alternatives to work with.
>> David and I use vi, but I wouldn't go as far as calling it the "Official
>> PostfixAdmin source code editor" ;-)
>> Seriously: take any editor or IDE you want and like.
> Any editor is fine - emacs, nano, vim, eclipse, netbeans .... use which
> ever one you're comfortable with.
>
>
>> We don't have something like coding guidelines, and for historical
>> reasons we even have some files with 3 and some with 4 spaces as tab
>> replacement. (New files should use 4 spaces.)
> I'd rather :
>
> spaces, not tabs
> 4 space indentation
>
> beyond that i'm not fussed.. I code like :
>
> public function fred($arg1, $arg2) {
>       if($arg1 == false) {
>             return true;
>       }
>       // etc.
> }
>
>
>
>
>
>>> I hope you people can guide me through this, maybe with tutorials or
>>> even by personal contact.
>> Personal contact as in "face to face meeting" might become difficult due
>> to long distances - your name doesn't sound german ;-)
>
> I'm in the UK. Meetings would be difficult for me.... at least normally
> (family/work etc)
>
>
>> Additionally you can join the #postfixadmin channel on the freenode IRC
>> network. I'm usually available there in the evening (as seen from CET
>> timezone), and David (nick "GingerDog") is there all the day. Be
>> "warned" that you won't get an answer within one or two minutes - there
>> are not too many people in the channel, and some of them (including
>> David) are there 24/7, but obviously not always awake ;-)
>
> If you want my attention, just say my name 'GingerDog' and i'll
> eventually realise and respond.
>
>
> thanks
> David.
Thank you guys, I really appreciate your help.
When I said personal contact I meant contact via "direct" email or maybe 
chat, It was funny, Christian made laugh a lot with my name not sounding 
german. In fact, I'm from Colombia and we here are not used to use IRC 
as a usual communication media but I think it's time time learn 
something about it.

@Christian: I couldn't find the command-line interface directory (not 
even in google), just the cli files in the scripts folder and another 
UserHandler.php file inside scripts/models-ext/. Is that the file you 
meant for me to check? I'm feeling a bit dumb with this, all you said 
sounds quite obvious but I'm still a bit loss here.

Thanks again.