[development] Need consensus on what "activity" means

[Walt Daniels]

To me, activity means the lastest change, whether it is a new comment or the
node author updating the node body. There are more subtile things a node
author can do which would change the node timestamp but ordinary users would
not perceive as a change, e.g. publish/unpublish from front page or change
access permissions. It may be hard to treat these differently and they are
rare enough that perhaps they can be treated the same as a textual change.
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On Behalf Of David Strauss
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 1:29 PM
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Subject: [development] Need consensus on what "activity" means

I'm working on a patch that refactors node_comment_statistics into node and
performs many other query optimizations. One is that I'm tracking node
"activity" as a combined timestamp for the node and the node's comments.

Does activity include:
1. The node creation timestamp or the latest comment timestamp 2. #1 plus
the node update timestamp

Normally, I wouldn't email the dev list about a specific patch, but I need
broad feedback because the combined "activity" timestamp will order forum
topic and tracker results.

The patch:

http://drupal.org/node/148849