[development] invite module

[Kieran Lal]

On May 26, 2006, at 8:07 AM, Khalid B wrote:

> Hello all.
>
> I am thinking of deprecating my referral module in favor of invite  
> module,
> now that 4.7 (and not HEAD) has hooks that I can use in adsense and
> userpoints. This avoids code duplication and user confusion.
>
> There is a need to add more hooks at certain points (e.g. when invited
> user actually registers, before role escalation),
>
> Also, there is a need to add some sort of callable query on whether a
> certain uid was  referred by another?
>
> Upon contacting Robert Douglass (who did the last round of changes to
> that module) he agrees with my proposed additions. I tried to contact
> Tatonca (Christopher Hill), but no reply since.
>
> So, I am asking here once more in case Chris lurks around. If do not
> hear from him in a few days, I will take over temporary ownership of
> the module, add the hooks in, update HEAD to 4.7.
>
> Any objections, comments, flames?

We definitely want to see a strongly supported invite module.

Are you going to use the mimemail module?  Our hope is to get  
mimemail.inc into 4.8 core.

Cheers,
Kieran