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!
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