[maemo-community] Maemo forum-to-mailing list integration

[From: Henri Bergius]

Hi, all

The maemo community is running several active mailing lists, including
maemo-users and maemo-developers. They currently have web-based
archives, but the only way to participate in the conversation is via
email.

With forum integration the idea is to utilize Midgard's forum software
so that it will provide web-based archives that also allow posting via
web. The web-based posts will be sent to the mailing list normally.

## Status

* Originally deployed with Midgard-based maemo.org went live, but
never taken into production
* Quite ugly layout as no designer was involved
* Some bit-rot, including email importer that reads mailing list
footer instead of content into the forum messages

## Tasks done

* Fix email importer to read message contents correctly
* Fix email formatted content display via datamanager
* Fix email linking to correct thread in a way that will still work in
Midgard 1.9
* Wipe old messages and re-import the archives from mbox format (done
on my test box, next needs to be done on internal, then maemo.org)

## Open tasks

* Backport all fixes to MidCOM 2.8 branch and package
* Design new layout for the forums, the default style is not optimal
* Make dynamic-loadable "mini person profile" that we can use to show
message authors connected to their maemo.org profiles
(http://maemo.org/profile/view/quick/bergie/ is the starting point)
* Launch beta

/Henri

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Henri Bergius
Nemein - Web Craftsmanship
http://nemein.com