On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 15:38, Alvaro Herrera<alvherre@commandprompt.com> w=
rote:
> Magnus Hagander escribi=F3:
>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 05:03, Alvaro Herrera<alvherre@commandprompt.com=
> wrote:
>
>> > It would be good, but currently that list comes from a database that
>> > cannot handle external lists. =A0Since that database also powers the
>> > search engine, I am very afraid to touch it ... particularly since it
>> > broke something on the site merely because I added a column on a table
>> > there.
>>
>> Yeah, there's some issues wrt how it's distributed to the different
>> servers. I *think* I fixed it so it wouldn't break from a simple
>> addition last time, but I can do the addition this time as well so I
>> can verify right away if it worked.
>
> That would be nice :-)
Actually - pick me up on IM sometime and we'll look into it together :)
>> A simple field saying "isexternal" for the list, is that what we're
>> looking for? Or do we need something more?
>
> I think we'd also need a field for the external URL. =A0Do we point at the
> archives or the subscription page? =A0I guess if it's mailman, pointing
> to the mailman/listinfo/<list> page would be good enough.
Well, in that case we can just have the external URL in a field and
leave it NULL (or empty to make our ***** web framework happier) for
internal lists, no?
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Magnus Hagander
Me: http://www.hagander.net/
Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
