definition of dynamic sublists needs to exist outside developer docmention

[Robin J]

Right now the documentation on dynamic sublists is in our personal developer documentation. It's pointed to by the create list page (xxx/mailman/create)

That information should exist in a publically available place (probably somewhere on systers) in a form that will make sense to list maintainers. They may be a little confused by the developer information that surrounds it.

(This is not a showstopper for the wishlist release -- just as we get to it)

[Jennifer Redman (jenred)]

Robin I'm not sure what you mean with this bug. Is this part of a how-to of list creation? Are you just looking for a "what is a dlist" type paragraph?

[Robin J (robin-jeffries)]

I'm assuming a new list admin (not necessarily a programmer or sys
admin) who wants to understand what dlists can do for her list. There
is a link on http://www.abiwt.org/mailman/create (and when we release
the new code, presumably they will be at the equivalent page on
systers.org) that points to the wiki; there are other things on the
pointed to page that would be confusing to a list admin. I should
have put the link into the bug report -- sorry. It's
http://systers.org/systers-dev/doku.php/good_to_know#a_few_definitions
(the link anchor text is "here"). I think we just need to replace
that link with a new link that goes to a page (that probably ought to
be part of the mailman code, since if dlists were installed on a new
machine, it wouldn't want to rely on our machine being up) with just
the "good to know" section (with a different title and minus the
"common variables" part). Arguably, the essays part should be on a
different page than the dlists part, since we have separated those.
That would require a link for the words "subscription essay" in the
3rd item under List Characteristics

Is that clear enough?

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Jennifer Redman <email address hidden> wrote:
> Robin I'm not sure what you mean with this bug.  Is this part of a how-
> to of list creation?  Are you just looking for a "what is a dlist" type
> paragraph?
>
> ** Changed in: systers
>       Status: New => Fix Released
>
> ** Changed in: systers
>       Status: Fix Released => In Progress
>
> ** Changed in: systers
>   Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: systers
>     Assignee: (unassigned) => Robin J (robin-jeffries)
>
> --
> definition of dynamic sublists needs to exist outside developer docmention
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414166
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>
> Status in Systers Mailman Custom Modifications: In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> Right now the documentation on dynamic sublists is in our personal developer documentation.  It's pointed to by the create list page (xxx/mailman/create)
>
> That information should exist in a publically available place (probably somewhere on systers) in a form that will make sense to list maintainers.  They may be a little confused by the developer information that surrounds it.
>
> (This is not a showstopper for the wishlist release -- just as we get to it)
>