HyperKitty, or how to get the best from mailing lists and forums

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HyperKitty is a next-generation mailing list archiver designed to improve upon existing archivers like Pipermail. It provides features like searchable archives, user customization, summary pages, and statistics. Developed as part of Mailman 3 by the Fedora community, HyperKitty bridges mailing lists and web forums. It needs help with user interface design, optimization, testing, and statistical analysis.

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HyperKitty
The next-gen. list archiver

Presented by
Aurélien Bompard
Fedora Engineering

FUDCon Lawrence 2013 − CC-BY

Today's Topics
Where we come from
Mailman today
Máirín's and Luke's vision

Where we are
Mailman 3
HyperKitty

Where we will be
Planned features
How you can help

Mailman 2.1
Maintenance branch
One release a year since 2006

A monolithic package :
Mailing-list engine
Web archiver (pipermail)
Web admin interface

What's wrong
Pipermail generates static HTML
Not directly searchable
No user-based customization
No summary / stats page
Read-only

Admin interface is CGI-based and generates
configuration files

Different environments, technologies,
skillsets

The vision
Early 2010 : Máirín & Luke

Complement the existing mailing-lists
Thread statistics (participants, replies)
List statistics (topics, people)
Post rating
User rating (“karma”)
Thread categories

A new hope
Early 2012 : Fedora Engineering

Refined mockup

Moar mockups !!1

Spring/summer: implementation starts
Toshio, Pingou, Syst3mW0rm, yours truly

Mailman 3
Modern and modular design
Mailman itself: mailing-list and REST API
Postorius: the web admin UI
HyperKitty: the web archiver
Queues, runners, TDD, ...

Key improvements
No more “happy Mailman day” !
No storing of plain-text passwords

When? RSN. Fall 2012: season of the delays

HyperKitty
An archiver plugin for Mailman3

KittyStore: the storage engine
SQL database (Storm ORM)
Analysis and statistics

HyperKitty: the web UI
Django-based
Interfaces with KittyStore
Implements “ModernArchiving” on list.org
Implement some of Mo's mockups

Planned features
Post from the web
A few challenges there (spam, SPF, etc.)

Many ideas in Mo's mockups
Rankings, categories
Improving signal-to-noise ratio

Ideas from the Debian community
Joey Hess (thread patterns)
A. Delanoë and B. Conein (socio-meter)

How you can help
HyperKitty needs you
UI and design
Django knowledge and optimization
Testing, installing, fuzzing, debugging

KittyStore needs you
Statistical analysis
Spam Troll detection

Frustrated with mailing-lists ? Every idea
counts.

Where you can help
Test the development version:
http://mm3test.fedoraproject.org

Report bugs:
http://fedorahosted.org/hyperkitty

Check out the code:
http://github.com/hyperkitty

Read the docs and install it:
http://hyperkitty.rtfd.org

Summary
Mailman 2.1 is growing old, Mailman 3 is
coming

HyperKitty will be its main archiver

Designed by the Fedora community for
everyone

Bridge the gap between mailing lists and
web forums

Questions?
Cool techs, cool designs, huge audience...
Come and be a part of it !

http://fedorahosted.org/hyperkitty
abompard@fedoraproject.org
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