On 02 Jan 2007, at 05:49, arthur wrote:
The meta issue is that we need someone to write a robust, lightweight, highly scaleable subscription framework capable of handling the volume on Drupal.org. There is the existing subscriptions module (http://drupal.org/project/subscriptions) that doesn't quite meet all of those needs yet.
-- Boris
I'm interested in moving the subscriptions module in that direction. I've been doing some code cleanup, but I'd like to target a specific feature set to streamline portions of the code.
Would people be interested in helping identify what the core functionality might be and I'll plan the implementation work?
Start with making it possible to subscribe to comment threads (individual nodes). Once you can subscribe to individual nodes, you can create mechanism to automatically subscribe users to new nodes. I.e. automatically subscribe me to all nodes in whose discussion I participiate. Or, automatically subscribe me to all nodes that mention my name or keyword 'XYZ'. Or, automatically subscribe to all nodes with the term 'ABC'. For now, I'd start super simple: let people subscribe to a node by checking a checkbox when they post a reply (i.e. like Wordpress does), get that in core, and worry about the 'automatic subscription mechanisms' in phase #2. So for me, step #1 would be to mimic Wordpress' subscription functionality. Just build that, but keep future use cases in mind. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/