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] ?
FWIW, the old fmn listened for messages from fas2 that someone was added
to the 'packager' group and if so, it created them an account and a
default set of rules.
Perhaps we could do something similar here?
ie, default most users to no rules, but have a default set for
packagers.
But then we would have to decide what those default rules are.
Anyhow, just some data from what the old one did.
kevin