Moin and notifications

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Mike McGrath wrote:
> Till Maas wrote:
>> On Di Oktober 16 2007, Mike McGrath wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> Proposal:  Disable notifications in Moin
>>>
>>> Reason: Even page creations at this point are not working for some 
>>> people.
>>>     
>>
>> How about a Wiki-Notification mailinglist, i.e. sending notifications 
>> only to one fixed address. Then add some topics to the mailinglist, 
>> e.g. for the SIGs, Packaging, Beats and other main namespaces to allow 
>> a little selection.
>>   
> 
> It'd require patches to moin.  IE: We'd either have to get rid of all of 
> the users or gut the mailing section of the wiki I guess.  Just a 
> reminder to those that aren't familiar with it.  Moin iterates over 
> every user who has page watch lists (currently in the thousands) to find 
> out who to notify.  As the number of our users increases and as the 
> number of the pages they watch increase moin gets slower and slower on 
> page saves.
> 
It would be doable though.  When I looked ~ a year ago, there were only 
two places in the code that would need to be hacked to replace the email 
subsystem.  I imagine we could find a single point in the code to hack 
if we just made finding the subscribed pages function return 
'fedora-wiki-commits-list at r.c' instead of parsing each user's config 
file and returning that list.

-Toshio