31 May
2018
31 May
'18
1:17 p.m.
Hi Guillaume,
On 31 May 2018, at 11:46, Guillaume Delhumeau
<guillaume.delhumeau(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
Notifications application is almost ready to replace the Activity Stream's
UI. The only remaining thing is the display
of the messages from the Message Stream in the Notifications.
We have made a quick brainstorming with Caty and Vincent, and here is our
conclusions.
1/ We think it make sense to display user messages in the notifications
because it is typically what notifications
are made for: pop-up important information concerning what the user cares.
In the past, we decided to disable the
Message Stream by default because messages were lost in the Activity
Stream. But in the case of the notifications, users
can chose what they want to receive so there is less chance to miss
messages in the middle of thousand of events.
2/ Like all other types of notification, there should be a button in the
notification settings of each user to decide to
enable or disable these messages in the notifications. It should be enabled
by default.
3/ We should add the "send message" gadget in the "alert" menu (via
an UIX)
so it's easy to find and to send messages.
We actually mentioned that this would be for later and that Caty would start an
investigation on this.
4/ Provide a form to be able to reply to a personal
message.
Same here (for later).
5/ Let the message stream disabled by default. Users
who are used to it
will not lose the feature but we don't make it
visible for now until we make some other improvements.
Actually we didn’t talk much about this. But we can decide what we do once the support is
back in the notifications UI.
This is what I am starting to implement right now with
the hope it's done
for XWiki 10.5.
Note that points 3 and 4 are not meant to be implemented now. FTM just displaying the
messages in the Notif UI.
In the future, we should add the following features:
a/ Having a real "inbox" application (a "Message Center") to handle
all
messages.
We didn’t really discuss this. But this should go in Caty’s investigation.
b/ Be notified when someone mention you in a content
or in a comment
(example: "@vmassol: You may want to read this
page" will trigger a notification to Vincent Massol).
c/ Handling correcty messages sent to a group if the first implementation
do not handle it (group filtering could be a problem
with SQL).
Yes we said the first impl will support at least messages sent to a user and to all.
Thanks
-Vincent
Caty, Vincent, please reply if I've forget something.
All others: if you have any recommendation or counter argument, please post
it quickly :)
Thanks for you time and have a great day,
Guillaume
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Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhumeau(a)xwiki.com)
Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
Committer on the XWiki.org project