Improving notifications

Current status - on hold

We need to make it easier to subscribe to issues/topics/areas of interest and then to be notified when something is going on that we might be interested in and willing/able to contribute to.

The dashboard of Drupal.org should be redesigned a little to make it easier to display and read these notifications
We should also make a much better use of email notifications than we currently do, and look at ways to automate Twitter/IRC notifications for those who want more immediate notice. We need to allow users to configure their notification preferences globally or by specific topic.

Reference

Earlier Prairie discussions

• Exploring Solutions: Notifications- http://groups.drupal.org/node/138089

Relevant discussions elsewhere

• A proposal for an inline, twitter-style notification system (@user mentions and #hashtags) http://groups.drupal.org/node/138269