Still alive and with projects :)

From: <jose.kahan_at_w3.org_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 09:02:59 +0200 (MET DST)
Message-Id: <200005260703.JAA01298_at_tuvalu.inrialpes.fr>

Hello hyper-folks,

I'm sorry if I haven't written much since the beginning of the year. I was caught in a collaborative annotations project and found out I was the only developer, where we were expecting to be two :-) Happily, the "crisis" is over now and I can come back to contribute a bit more to hypermail.

So, what has been going on on my hypermail side?

At the end of December, I switched all of W3Cs mailing lists to the hypermail that was committed to CVS (over 350 lists). Previously, I had been using a patched hypermail 1.x. Y2K bugs helps getting things done. I had reported on this at the time.

I'm happily to report that the archives have been working without problems. We've detected two minor bugs concerning the generated HTML, which is not valid in two specific cases.

There's another problem with munged headers in some cases. I have the exact bug reports, but I have to dig them up.

I'll soon have time to continue working with Hypermail. What I'd like to add is:

-enhance the CSS support

• enchance the accesibility (WAI). Some of our users have complained and given some pointers, including a blind user.
• convert the doc to docbook or something equivalent so that we can generate the tex, ps, man files from the same source.
• finish packaging the front end perl scripts I'm using at W3C so that I can contribute them to the community. I use them to divide the archives into periods and to add a fault-tolerant layer... between Smartlist and hypermail. BTW, I call those front ends hypermess, as they are/were the first Perl scripts I ever wrote :)

Is anyone already working or interested in some of the above points? I don't claim exclusivity on any of them, except the last one, naturally :)

In addition, I now have time to help setting up an ssh CVS access on our CVS server if we still want it.

Cheers,

-Jose
Received on Fri 26 May 2000 09:05:44 AM GMT