[tech] Mailing lists + Markdown parser

[James Andrewartha]

On Wed, 13 Mar 2019, Unigames UWA wrote:

> Hey there tech@, Unigames (Donald) here. 
> Two inquiries:
> 1) Unigames would like to have a few more mailing lists. Ideally we would like:
> - unigames (our current one)
> - unigames-magic (new)
> - unigames-rpgs (new)
> - unigames-wargames (new)
> - unigames-freshers (new)

This is feasible, who should we put as the mailing list admins?

> Ideally, we would also like unigames-freshers to not allow user subscriptions, but make it so that only an mailing list admind
> can subscribe people. Is this doable?

Yeah, it's easy to do that.

> Also, sub-inquiry: If I sent mail to unigames at ucc.asn.au, would it go to the mailing list, or whatever email we have it set to
> forward to, or both? (None at the moment I don't believe, but good to check.)

Mailing list.

> 2) Currently, Unigames' website is hosted on UCC's servers, and I'm making slow upgrades to it as part of my secretary job this
> year.
> 
> One of those things involves posting minutes in markdown. Currently though, I have to upload a .md file and a rendered
> .html file to get it to look pretty.
> 
> Is there a way to allow .md files to be rendered automatically when viewed, just on our domain? 

Hmm, .ucc files can contain markdown but then they'll be rendered with the 
UCC theme. Also the process flow is fucking nasty (and I use that term 
advisedly, first it parses the markdown into an older format called 
"DOCTYPE grahame" which is then processed with XSLT into HTML).

Some quick googling turns up several better options, 
https://github.com/hamano/apache-mod-markdown 
https://github.com/sminnee/markdown-handler 
http://projects.skurfer.com/Example.mdown 

Which one to pick is an open question, the second and third ones in theory 
can be installed by you so perhaps try them first.

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