RFC: Notification system

Dmitri Dolguikh dmitri at redhat.com
Tue Aug 14 09:43:18 UTC 2012


On 14/08/12 09:33 AM, Jaromír Coufal wrote:
>
> On 13.8.2012 23:32, Matt Wagner wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 05:26:55PM -0400, Matt Wagner wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> I've been dwelling on user notifications a bit more. #3623 implies this
>>> functionality, and there are some comments visible here:
>>> https://www.aeolusproject.org/redmine/issues/3623
>>>
>>> We have some licensing difference between our projects (grr!), but it
>>> might make sense to see about borrowing the Katello implementation
>>> rather than reinventing this from the ground up. They already support
>>> persistent notifications which can be sent to multiple users, though
>>> we'd have to add email notifications and perhaps notification
>>> preferences. I added a couple of screenshots as well.
>>>
>>> Let me know what you think -- does this seem like a good approach for us
>>> to follow?
>> My email would make _way_ more sense if I included the wiki page I
>> intended to link to:
>> https://www.aeolusproject.org/redmine/projects/aeolus/wiki/Notification_System
>>
>> That has most of the information you actually need, and my previous
>> email was just meant to invite you to look at it. D'oh!
>>
>> -- Matt
> Hello Matt,
>
> did you look over the mock-up I've send you? It's quite similar system 
> as Katello's when I look at their screenshots. The only difference is 
> my suggestion to distinguish between three types of notification - 
> informative, warnings (alerts), approvals. It's for user's better 
> orientation to quickly realize what happened (not just number in the 
> header, but also part of its semantics).
Not sure if there's an approval-level notification, but Katello does 
distinguish between success-(informative) and failure-(alert) 
notifications.
>
> One more difference is maybe between dismissing. From Katello's 
> screenshot it looks that you dismiss the notification by deleting it. 
> I would suggest to dismiss item by seeing it and still keep it in the 
> system on notification page.
Not sure what you mean by "deleting" - alerts have to be explicitly 
dismissed by the user, while notices disappear automatically. In either 
case the notification stays in the db.

-d
>
> I will just attach the notification mock-up to this conversation 
> thread as well (for others, if they are interested).
>
> Does it make sense for you?
>
> -- Jarda
> -- 
> Jaromír Coufal
>
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