On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 9:49 PM Adam Williamson
<adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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!
Exactly. I want to get notifications for events that are happening to
packages that I'm associated with
(either by being a (co-)maintainer, being a member of a co-maintainer
group, or by "watching" a package on dist-git)
that were *not* triggered by myself. For example:
- somebody else pushes a commit to the package on dist-git
- somebody else launches a koji build for the package
- somebody else submits an update containing the package to bodhi
- koschei notices that the package starts to be FTBFS
- somebody or something filed a bug against the package
- etc.
Fabio