Fwd: Re: [Discuss] Donating PonEE UI-X to Apache Pony Mail

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Fwd: Re: [Discuss] Donating PonEE UI-X to Apache Pony Mail

Jacques Le Roux
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Sujet : Re: [Discuss] Donating PonEE UI-X to Apache Pony Mail
Date : Tue, 23 Jun 2020 12:00:30 +0200
De : Daniel Gruno <[hidden email]>
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Pour : [hidden email]



On 23/06/2020 11.19, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Can we forward to our dev ML (OFBiz)?

Absolutely, dev@ponymail is a public list :)

>
> Thanks
>
> Jacques
>
> Le 23/06/2020 à 10:46, Daniel Gruno a écrit :
>> Hi pony mail folks,
>> The chaps at PonEE have been working on a new user interface for Pony Mail for a while, which is currently being used for mobile devices accessing
>> our archives at lists.apache.org. For those that haven't tried it yet, it's a dual-device (mobile+browser) adaptive interface, and they'd like to
>> donate the interface to us at Apache Pony Mail.
>>
>> It's not as complex/feature-full as the old/standard pony interface (some of this is intentional), and some things are still a bit buggy, but I'd
>> love for us to adopt this interface and work on ironing out the kinks, potentially replacing our old standard UI with it in the coming months/years.
>>
>> Before I describe the major changes/differences, I'll quickly point out that the desktop/browser version can be tested via
>> https://lists.apache.org/x/ (when accessing on a mobile device, it should in fact redirect to that address already, from what I understand).
>>
>> Now, to the differences with the old UI:
>>
>> - New simplified front page (the "phone book")
>> - New base scaffolding with a more compact calendar and stats.
>> - Adaptive mobile version of the UI
>> - Better quoting of old email
>> - New "chatty" design for conversations (old standard view is still available)
>> - Integrated diff syntax highlighting (useful for apache!)
>> - better list tabbing, custom search can now be a tab as well, allowing you to move between your last search results and a domain's lists.
>> - moved away from using innerHTML for all un-trusted variables (big security win).
>> - preferences tab has been removed. This is an intentional dumbing down of the interface from their side, and I think it makes sense to have as
>> simple an interface as possible. Up to the project to decide if that should change.
>>
>>
>> I'd like to kick off a discussion where people can give some feedback on this idea...or if we're all cool with this, that's acceptable as well :)
>>
>> Let me know what you think! If this discussion is favorable, I'll kick off a simple vote thread later this/next week, or whenever the discussion
>> dies down.
>>
>> With regards,
>> Daniel.
>>