From: Pat Eyler <pate@...>
Date: 2002-05-09T04:03:58+09:00
Subject: Re: WWW.RUBYCONF.ORG

On Thu, 9 May 2002, Dossy wrote:

> On 2002.05.09, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately, it uses From: line.  Probably we need to change the list
> > server.  Mailman?  Or our own server in Ruby?
>
> I was really shocked to hear that the mailing list wasn't implemented
> in Ruby.  :-)
>
> One side of the coin says, "There's plenty of free mailing list
> software out there, a few are even good :-), why write another one?"
>
> The other side says, "It'd be so trivially simple to whip something
> very functional up in Ruby and something useful might come from it
> that can be extracted into another library for others to use in
> the future ..."

For those who care, the Seattle Ruby Brigade has started to work on
something like this.  The intent is to include mail archiving for the web
(this is the part we started with) as well as mailing list management
(we'd like to interface to existing software, but writing our own
mailinglist manager isn't out of the question).

If people want to jump in, just be aware that we're asking that code be
developed in an XPish fashion (as much as fits your circumstances) -- the
only real requirements are: unit tests for all methods and classes, all
tests pass before checking in code.  If you'd like to get on board,
www.sourceforge.net/projects/seattlerb has a pointer to the cvs
repository.

thanks,
-pate


>
> -- Dossy
>
>