On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 10:30:01AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 08:56:57AM -0000, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
> > 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] ?
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https://github.com/fedora-infra/fmn/issues/900
Zbyszek