So… I understand why this default was chosen, but I think that
it'd be better
to change the default to something narrow-but-reasonable, especially for
new users. If I'm new to Fedora, I probably wouldn't know about fmn and
it'd be hard to discover. But if I get even a few notifications, I'd be
aware of it. I think a default of at least "My events" sent to IRC/Matrix
would be reasonable.
That's very interesting. I think we could go this route but there are a few things
that need to be sorted out:
- the old FMN is still running, so we'll need to wait until we turn it off so that
people don't get double notifications
- we could add a default rule such as "my actions" for new users, but users are
only registering their email at account creation time, FMN won't know about Matrix or
IRC at that point
- what about users who add a matrix / irc address later? Should it update the default
rule? But only for users who recently created an account?
- some important apps are not using FMN, such as Bohdi, and external applications. I'm
afraid we may spam new users with duplicate notifications that they do not expect.
- the FMN notifications are still a bit rough around the edges, I'd be more confident
if we let the dust settle a little bit, and we sanitized duplicates and incomplete
messages before we enable it for new users by default
All this should be discussed in a ticket, do you mind opening one with your proposal here
[1] ?
Thanks!
[1]
https://github.com/fedora-infra/fmn/issues
IIUC, the old fmn will continue sending until either the user
disables it in their
config or it goes offline (end of 2023?).
We aim to shutdown the old FMN after F39.
A.