Re: [PyCS-devel] Should we have our own pycs-users discussion forum and mailing list?

[Phillip P. <pp...@my...>]

> Just thought about it, I think we should have them. Phil: with your 
> mailing-list-to-blog gateway and a patched comments.py that gates 
> comments back to the mailing list, we should be able to get the dual 
> feed technology that radio has with only minor hassles. I think it would 
> be good to have them both and to change the defaults in xmlStorageSystem 
> to our own lists.

Good idea!

> So my proposal would be to set up pycs-users as a mailing list, gate 
> that into a blog and gate comments back into the list. And maybe we 
> could set up two of them, so we can have one in english and one in 
> german? ;-)

Heh, sure.  Will set that up soon (once Xmas dinner etc is over).

> Or tell me what is needed for the gateway stuff, and I set them up at my 
> system (list software is already available, so it wouldn't be a problem 
> to run it). But I think we should get users to ask on our own forum 
> first, as that would enable us to filter out stuff that's more a pycs 
> problem than a rcs/radio problem. We can still point them over to the 
> radio list if we think it's something we can't handle/solve.

All that's needed for the gateway is a copy of bzero.  Install, create
a new blog on pycs.net (tell me the usernum and I'll make it
pycs.net/users or something), and call bzero postmsg with each message
as it arrives.  Here's the Python code I use to do it for this list:

open( '/tmp/pycs-devel.msg.tmp', 'w' ).write( msgtext )
os.system( 'bz postmsg pycs-devel-archive /tmp/pycs-devel.msg.tmp' )
os.system( 'bz send pycs-devel-archive' )

> Oh, and a merry christmas to all here on the list!

Yup - Merry Christmas to everyone!

Cheers,
Phil :)