Hereby some suggestions/improvements for Dada (next release ?): 1. At the bottom of the screen 'Manage Copy | Email Messages' there is a table to explain the available tags. The following tags are not listed, but they can be very usefull: plain_list_confirm_subscribe_link => The subscribe instantly link plain_list_confirm_unsubscribe_link => The unsubscribe instantly link At Dada's forum, people have been asking for these tags a few times. I use them myselves too. So I have added them to ...Continue Reading

> While I appreciate Justin including my recent XHTML compliance and > code formatting work in his summary of the improvements made in the > *first* Dada Mail 2.10 alpha release, ...honestly, who cares? Awww. I just didn't know what else to write :) If you want to provide some copy, I'll inject it in there. To let you know, most of what I use for changelog stuff is pulled from the CVS comments (As an aside, if we switch to darcs, I'll need a new way to do this... - different topic I guess) > ...Continue Reading

While I appreciate Justin including my recent XHTML compliance and code formatting work in his summary of the improvements made in the *first* Dada Mail 2.10 alpha release, ...honestly, who cares? It's not like the fact I closed a few open tags and made sure things are well-nested is going to make a whit of difference to you or to any other end-users.   Until now, that is. :-)   Following the general concept and spirit of a very customization-friendly XHTML page that my neighbour Dave* made for a litt ...Continue Reading

> Some functional questions: will we be able to select the "test > recipients" > by picking and choosing from the main subscription list, or will we > have to > cut-and-paste them in manually? It would be a separate list - like how the black list is now. It's easy enough to specify a different list for Dada Mail to send to internally. For example - the invite messages are just a mailing list message sent to a different list other than the subscription list. > And similarly: will ...Continue Reading

> There would be a limit to how > many addresses you could have - say, 10, but then you could send a > test message to many addresses at once, instead of just the list > owner. I know *I'd* use this feature. So IMO: sure, go for it if that's what's inspiring you at the moment. It shouldn't kill anyone if things are held back another "not too long".... Some functional questions: will we be able to select the "test recipients" by picking and choosing from the main subscription list, or w ...Continue Reading

Someone has expressed interest in a, "Test" address for test mailings to be sent out to - instead of being addressed to the list owner. I got thinking about the idea of having another sublist - like the black list specifically for testers. There would be a limit to how many addresses you could have - say, 10, but then you could send a test message to many addresses at once, instead of just the list owner. Since now the API and the GUI are pretty well un... hard coded in terms of how to work with ...Continue Reading

On 08/21/2005 -0700, Mark Stosberg shouted from a passing locomotive: [snip[ > TortoiseCVS is nice, and I would like to see that kind of tool appear for > darcs. > > I'll soon try to provide some details so those who are interested in can > play with darcs in a non-committal way and use that experience to > confirm whether you want to move that direction. > > [snip] Would SVN be something to consider? It still keeps the centralized repository but fixes some of the other stuff that is a prob ...Continue Reading

On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 09:40:03PM -0000, Shane Clintberg wrote: > > > we cannot move to darcs before 2.10 > > The timing doesn't matter a whit to me personally. > > And, yes, I agree that doing it post-2.10 makes the most sense overall. That sounds sensible to me, too. > I gotta say that I'll miss my CVS GUI, however. Right now I'm using > TortoiseCVS ( http://tortoisecvs.org/ ), ...and all I have to do is > right-click a file (or multiple files) in the appropriate Windows > fold ...Continue Reading

> we cannot move to darcs before 2.10 The timing doesn't matter a whit to me personally. And, yes, I agree that doing it post-2.10 makes the most sense overall. [A reminder here: be sure to drop these plans into the roadmap, Justin. The more you start using that file as a *working document* rather than just an external-communications afterthought, the easier it'll make things in the long run for folks like me!] I gotta say that I'll miss my CVS GUI, however. Right now I'm using TortoiseCVS ( http://tortoisecvs.o ...Continue Reading

Alright, well, as long as all the current active developers are in on it (Me...Shane...), it would be my responsibility as team leader to be sensitive to the needs and wants of the entire Dada community and give Darcs a whirl - as I have no lasting feeling for CVS - it's cool and all, and I have some fun sometimes, but it drinks too much. And it never calls after we hang out. And that sucks. And - oh no wait - that's this one girl... not CVS, but ironically, she has the same initials... Actually no that' ...Continue Reading