[development] subscribe to a node

Boris Mann boris at bryght.com
Tue Oct 31 21:19:37 UTC 2006


On 10/31/06, James Walker <walkah at walkah.net> wrote:

> > I'd have to look at subscriptions.module first (don't turn out
> > modules on drupal.org without a decent security review).  That
> > said, I'd love to have e-mail subscriptions in core -- even if it
> > is a fairly naive implementation.
>
> If we're going to go that route I'd rather see a general subscription
> framework (no, I'm not going to say "API" ;) in core. There are lots
> of other ways that a someone could be notified of subscriptions (i.e.
> Jabber/XMPP, etc). It'd be nice if things could tie in there. So a
> subscriptions framework would really just keep track of what nodes/
> terms/etc are subscribed and offer a hook for implementations to do
> the notifying.
>
> Code is gold? :P

Subscriptions already does RSS as well. So it's somewhat close. But
yes....the mythical someone needs to stand up and 1) do a code review
and 2) file issues that need changing and 3) do the issues with code

-- Boris Mann


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