Re: The future of FMN (Fedora Messaging Notifications)

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Fri, 2022-04-22 at 11:35 +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> On 22. 04. 22 9:16, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
> > Hey folks!
> > 
> > We're having a look at FMN these days, and we're trying to design its replacement in our Fedora Messaging enabled world.
> > The current FMN has the following shortcomings:
> > - too slow at runtime
> > - slow at startup time (a couple of hours to startup…)
> > - complex UI
> > 
> > We think that this all comes from the same root cause: FMN is too flexible. It's trying to be everyone's procmail, and as a result the UI is complex and performance is hindered.
> > 
> > Also, in the past years we've adopted quite a few external services (Discourse, Gitlab, etc) which come with their own notification systems, so the needs of FMN users may have changed, and FMN can no longer be the one-stop-shop of notifications it aimed to be.
> > 
> > So we're planning to rewrite it as a much more simple notification system, with a few pre-defined things you could subscribe to, clearly presented in the UI but with less bells and whistles, and for that we're gathering your requirements.
> > 
> > What do you want from Fedora's notifications? We have identified the following use cases:
> > - I want to be notified of what happens on my artifacts (packages, containers, modules, flatpaks)
> > - I want to be notified of what happens on any artifact by entering its type and its name
> > - I want to be notified of events referring to my username
> > - I want to be able to follow someone (for example, my mentee)
> > - I want to be able to block or allow notifications from a particular application (koji, bodhi, dist-git, etc)
> > - I want to my notifications to be sent via email and/or IRC
> > 
> > Are there other use cases that would make your contributor's life easier? 
> 
> Groups. I want to be notified of what happens on group's artifacts, events 
> referring to the group's name.

Replying to a reply because I can't find the original mail, sorry.

I want to be easily able to *NOT* be notified of things I just did. In
fact this should probably be the default. Right now my FMN
notifications are floods of "adamwill did X to Y" - yes, I know, I just
did it!
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA
IRC: adamw | Twitter: adamw_ha
https://www.happyassassin.net

_______________________________________________
devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure




[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Users]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora Testing]     [Fedora Formulas]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kernel Development]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Desktop]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]

  Powered by Linux