15 Mar
2008
15 Mar
'08
11:30 a.m.
On Mar 10, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
[snip]
I don't agree. What you have in mind is a simple email storage/search
facility. However leverage watch we get much more:
* The ability to tag/filter interesting mails. Since the problem with
mails is that the information is scattered a bit everywhere, I think
it's useful to be able to say that such email is flagged as containing
interesting information for example.
* The ability to reuse an existing interface with all its niceness
* Emails are just a source of information. I recall Ludovic saying
that Watch was designed to allow different input sources. For example
for AFP we had discussed using Watch to read their existing documents
and presenting them in Watch.
* The Watch Email plugin would be easily plugged onto a mailing list
(by having a watch user subscribed to the list for example). Another
plugin would be one that plugs on the email list manager (and thus can
request past emails, etc).
* When Watch gets new features added our email feature also gets
features added automatically.
* Watch can be seen as a generic tool for managing information source
feeds.
* A way of
sending emails to XWiki so they can be stored, archived
and
referenced from a wiki page.
Yep, I remember some talking about this.
BTW I wonder if XWiki Watch could be used for this? We'd just need to
hook a mailbox + a POP module (or a mailing list archive reader) and
it should work just fine I think.
I'm not sure this is the most relevant way to do it. I'd rather see an email archive application that
would work this way
-> you send an email to a given address (say emailarchive(a)yourxwikiserver.com
) .
There's another option. Create a forum application to manage mails in
the same as Jive is doing it with their forum:
http://www.jivesoftware.com/products/forums/featuretour.jsp
They also support plugging in their forum onto an existing mailing
list which is great.
IMO going the Watch route would be a good thing to try as a POC or as
a GSOC since it shouldn't be too hard to do.
The email is converted into a wiki page with an unique
identifier
based on its subject, sender, date etc.
This is true with Watch too.
The page metadata uses the email info to fill in the
author &
creation date. A check would probably be needed for protected page
(add the email only if the sender's email adresses matches the one
of an user who has rights on that page).
An index page lists all the email and allows filtering & searching
them.
A macro allows to quote a mail in a page (could be done with
#includeTopic(MailArchive.UniqueEmailIdentifier) actually)
Anyway more discussions would be needed to decide whether that
application would be worth making it into XE 1.4 (though I'd be glad
to have it).
[snip]
Thanks
-Vincent