New templates and static

[sdarwin]

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[sdarwin]

@gregnewman it looks very good! See https://lists.stage.boost.cppalliance.org/

This pull request contains 15 files that differed. They have been deployed on the test machines. Template and static dirs are referenced in https://github.com/cppalliance/boost-mailman/blob/master/settings.py

So far, the appearance of the new header is correct. The documentation mentions an {% extends %} syntax. Could that be applied to these new files anywhere, to further reduce the amount of code being maintained? By "extending" an existing file, the new file doesn't need to contain as much information. Although there are probably limits to the technique.

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[sdarwin]

The appearance of the templates looks great.

After reviewing all the files, it seems there are not many opportunities to consolidate or simplify things. I did find one trick. Consider _hyperkitty-message.scss. By leveraging @import, the earlier files can be imported, and then only override a few settings:

@import "original/hyperkitty-message";

.replies .email {
        .subject {
		padding-top: 5;
                padding-left: 0;
        }
}

That has been done. In the future, newer Hyperkitty files can be copy-pasted in fairly easily without modifying _hyperkitty-message.scss.

I've also included copies of the upstream templates, which can be compared or diffed when upgrading.

Unfortunately, {% extends %} functionality depends on {% block %} placeholders. If the files being overwritten don't have blocks they cannot be customized that way.

[gregnewman]

@sdarwin part of my current effort is abstract the hyperkitty style additions/changes into its own include which will cleanup a lot and hopefully make it easier to do updates. And yes, extends won’t work.

[sdarwin]

Sounds good. For reference, the script which is copying these files to the destination django static and template folders is https://github.com/cppalliance/boost-mailman/blob/master/ansible/custom/main.yml