Hi Guillaume,

> On 10 Apr 2017, at 17:34, Guillaume Delhumeau <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hello developers!
> 
> The new roadmap has been voted and I continue my work on the notifications
> module. You might have played with it since the 9.2 release and I hope you
> like it.
> 
> Now I need to implement the email part of the notifications module. It
> means that users could decide either the notifications are displayed on the
> top menu or sent by emails periodically.

I don’t think it’s “either”. IMO they could have both at the same time.

Also it shouldn’t have to be only periodically; it’s important to include the 
realtime notification too.

> Having this in mind, it is clear
> that it conflicts with the Watchlist.
> 
> The plan is to move to contrib the Watchlist application (when possible)
> and to implement the same features inside the notifications module.
> 
> Any objection before I start the work?

Sounds good to me. The Notifications module should encompass all features from 
AS and Watchlist IMO.

Various ideas:
* From an architecture POV I think we should have some generic way to be able 
to subscribe to notifications by XObject classes (ie. when an XObject of a 
given XClass is added/updated or removed).
* This would cover for example the Comment use case. A user should be able to 
say the she/he wants to be notified when a Comment is added / modified or 
deleted.
* In order to merge the Watchlist feature, don’t forget that for each Event 
type, you need to include the ability for the user to decide what part of the 
wiki it concerns. Examples:
** Receive notifications for Blog A (but not Blog B)
** Receive page notifications for all pages under that page
** Receive comment notifications for all comments done in pages in that wiki 
only

This last point is important and means that we probably need to modify the 
current notifications UI on the user profile page to be able to add 
includes/excludes for each event type. We may also need to have a UI similar to 
the Watchlist one that allows you to watch the current page/space/wiki but 
possibly done more generically, allowing you to choose the event types too. If 
we had both types of UI the user would be able to set his/her notifications 
from 2 angles:
* select the event type and then the scope
* select the scope and then the even type

I have the feeling that both are interesting, depending on the situation.

WDYT?

Thanks
-Vincent

> Thanks,

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