From: fr33domlover Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:14:16 +0000 (-0400) Subject: wishlist: ask about using ikiwiki as ML X-Git-Tag: 3.20150107~104^2~4 X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/3bccedd49230314f44d26aafa4391cb1217213ed?ds=sidebyside;hp=-c wishlist: ask about using ikiwiki as ML --- 3bccedd49230314f44d26aafa4391cb1217213ed diff --git a/doc/todo/MUA-like_access_to_forum__47__blog.mdwn b/doc/todo/MUA-like_access_to_forum__47__blog.mdwn index 8d11a5504..54cc8e888 100644 --- a/doc/todo/MUA-like_access_to_forum__47__blog.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/MUA-like_access_to_forum__47__blog.mdwn @@ -33,3 +33,41 @@ done with mailing lists? (I don't mind a hacked solution that solves the problem for me, but if it's not just me being crazy, I prefer a general-purpose solution that helps everyone) + + + +[[!tag wishlist]] + +Maybe I'm not using ikiwiki right, and I'll appreciate any advice on this, but +it seems to me that using ikiwiki instead of a mailing lists has some major +weaknesses which I fail to overcome, but which may be possible to fix, maybe +using some client-side software. + +The problem: Mailing lists give me things I need but can't find here, so I'm +failing to track the [[/forum]], [[/todo]] and so on: + +- With MLs I can easily see what I read, to what I replied, mark things with + colors and labels if my MUA supports it +- With MLs I can easily send a reply, without going through git. Reading and + writing happen together in the same dedicated UI + +I know I can subscribe to [[forum]] and to individual posts' comment feeds, but +it's not the same - I don't see the tree of comments like in e-mail. Either I +sort by creation time (not seeing evidence of more recent replies) or by +last-edited time, or perhaps by last comment (then busy pages cause less busy +ones quickly go deep into the list and are never seen by the user). + +Is there an existing solution to this? + +Random ideas, maybe direction for a solution: + +- Make client software which takes a local git clone of a wiki and operates on + it, while the user sees an MUA-like interface +- Add some plugin to ikiwiki that can cooperate with an MTA: listen to e-mail + on a mailing list with specific formatting and put the content into a wiki. + +What do you think? How do you keep track of the forum etc. in the same way it's +done with mailing lists? + +(I don't mind a hacked solution that solves the problem for me, but if it's not just +me being crazy, I prefer a general-purpose solution that helps everyone)