Activity
Activity within Drupal has seen some duplicate efforts over the years and we need to consolidate to bring about the ultimate solution. DiSo and other resources are available for coming up with general theory and specifications. Activity module has been mentioned as a core feature candidate as well as a sought after feature on drupal.org itself. Let's coordinate and share.
Resources:
- http://drupal.org/project/activity
- http://drupal.org/project/activitystream
- http://groups.google.com/group/activity-streams
- http://diso-project.org
- http://activitystrea.ms
Activity2 User Interface
In order to understand the thinking behind this, you must remember that Activity2 is now based upon a configurable action which can be applied to triggers which are supplied through other modules. This gives us the ability to reuse a lot of the same core tables (actions and trigger_assignments) but the current Trigger and Actions UI's are quite confusing and encompass more than just Activity2 specific actions. There are also some limitations within the current Actions UI which create large complications when it comes to configuring an Activity2 Action.
Facebook using activitystrea.ms
I'm not sure if anyone else has seen this announcement (http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=225) but I think it's a pretty important step in the right direction.
Activity 2.x vs general purpose logging module?
I'm currently planning the rule based custom logging module, which I'm going to write after rules 1.0 is out. I post this to the activity group too, because I think there is quite a overlap to 2.x version, which is currently under development.
MySpace using activitystrea.ms spec
Checkout how MySpace has adapted this spec. We can get some idea on how to implement this as they have some example ATOM feeds listed.
http://developerwiki.myspace.com/index.php?title=Standards_for_Activity_...
I got this from the following Google group thread: http://groups.google.com/group/activity-streams/browse_thread/thread/d86...
Better demo site
Does anyone have a better demo site I can link to from the project page? The old one is no longer... any good. I plan on getting a new demo up at http://activity.sirkitree.net - but wondering if anyone has one right now.
Development of Activity 6.2
Here are some links to relevant discussions of late.
Ultimate activity feed - programming, technical
Ultimate activity feed - features, UI
Activity logs in Drupal
Activity BoF Notes
Ultimate activity feed - programming, technical
Maintainers of activity type modules, or other interested parties,
If you had to rewrite your module from the ground up, or architect the ultimate end-all be-all module for recording and displaying user activity on your site, how would you go about it now, knowing what you know?
From maintaining the Activity module, I think I've come up with some basic needs for this kind of feature, so let's discuss how to best go about implementing the functionality of the ultimate solution.
Basic needs:
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Ultimate activity feed - features, UI
I think pretty much anyone looking for this sort of feature for their site comes from knowing how it is implemented on facebook and are looking for something very similar. If that is the case, there are a few main things that we're looking for it to do, how it should look and act from a user's standpoint. But what are your expectations?
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