From: www-data Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:06:46 +0000 (+0000) Subject: web commit by BrandenRobinson: Add brainstorming about email change notification. X-Git-Tag: 1.0~345 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?p=ikiwiki.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=e4da88917e8c50460945bd4c63561274104c6bae web commit by BrandenRobinson: Add brainstorming about email change notification. --- diff --git a/doc/todo.mdwn b/doc/todo.mdwn index 68b1ccff5..6a14228fb 100644 --- a/doc/todo.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo.mdwn @@ -19,6 +19,28 @@ is built. (As long as all changes to all pages is ok.) already, so just look at the userdb, svnlook at what's changed, and send mails to people who have subscribed. + A few details: + 1. [[Joey]] mentioned that being able to subscribe to globs as well as + explicitly named pages would be desirable. + 2. I think that since we're using Perl on the backend, being able to + let users craft their own arbitrary regexes would be good. + 3. Of course if you do that, you want to have form processing on the user + page that lets them tune it, and probably choose literal or glob by + default. + + The first cut, I suppose, could use one sendmail process to batch-mail all + subscribers for a given page. However, in the long run, I can see users + demanding a bit of feature creep: + + 4. Each user should be able to tune whether they see the actual diff parts or + not. + 5. Each user should be able to set a maximum desired email size. + 6. We might want to support a user-specified shibboleth string that will be + included in the email they receive so they can easily procmail the messages + into a folder. + + --[[BrandenRobinson]] + ## pluggable renderers I'm considering a configurable rendering pipeline for each supported