On 07/03/2017 01:49 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > >> On 3 Jul 2017, at 11:56, Clément Aubin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi devs ! >> >> Currently working on >> [XWIKI-14353](https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-14353), I think that >> the live e-mail notification system could be implement as 2 different ways : >> >> 1. In its notification preferences, a user can select if he wants a mail >> daily, hourly or weekly (that’s already in place). We could add a new >> "live" option that does exactly what is expected : it sends a mail as >> soon as a document has been updated. >> >> 2. We could also provide a completely different option that sends live >> e-mails, but regular notification mails are still sent depending on the >> user preference and acts as a hourly / daily or weekly "digest”. > > Not sure what’s the use case for receiving both realtime mails + digests, do > you have one? For the user this means duplicate info, no?
I saw that feature in some mailing-list systems, such as Mailman, were you can get a weekly digest of what happened on the mailing list. > >> Finally one idea would be to use the same system that is implemented in >> discourse : a mail is sent approximately 10 minutes after an event is >> triggered, >> this means that if a user A is subscribed to the events >> coming form a document X, if this document is updated by someone else, >> the updates coming from the document in the next 10 minutes will be >> grouped in a single mail that will be sent to A. This could potentially >> be more scalable as less mails are sent to the users. > > Yes, a configurable grace period would be very nice. This is quite useful to > avoid spamming when you notice you made some typos for example or you didn’t > use preview and created a broken link, etc. ;) Ok, then if no other opinion is expressed, I’ll go with that :) > Thanks > -Vincent > >> WDYT ? >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Clément Aubin >> Web Developer Intern @XWiki SAS >> [email protected] >> More about us at http://www.xwiki.com > -- Clément Aubin Web Developer Intern @XWiki SAS [email protected] More about us at http://www.xwiki.com
