Improved notifications system

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What's your idea?

Currently we have email notifications for issue queue only. There is so much more people want to be notified about: comments on case studies, documentation edits, new releases of projects, comments on a.d.o blog posts, comments on forum posts.

What are the benefits?

People can find out in time when something they are interested in has changed or there are new comments. E.g. case study authors can know when someone commented on their case study and reply in time.

What are the risks?

How can we measure the impact of this idea? (metrics)

Who directly benefits from / will use this improvement? (target audiences)

Are additional resources available for discovery/implementation? (volunteer effort, financial backing, etc.)

Comments

Improve the content/layout of g.d.o. emails

manarth's picture

The current notification template isn't well-suited to the type of content that's created on g.d.o.

I made an initial iteration on improving the template - see https://groups.drupal.org/node/287278 - which is a step forward in improved readability.

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Marcus Deglos
Founder / Technical Architect @ Techito.

For documentation, this

LeeHunter's picture

For documentation, this capability is desperately needed. In fact, we need something a little more sophisticated than just being able to follow an individual page. It's really important that we also have the option to get notifications on a parent page AND all the child pages (existing and future).

This would finally give us a way for people to act as a technical reviewer for a particular sections of the documentation. We need people to monitor the security documentation (as just one important example) to make sure that any changes are sane and reasonable and right now there's absolutely no mechanism to allow them to do that.

More notifications for issues too

kim.pepper's picture

Currently, we don't get a notification if a test passes, so you're required to check back regularly.

Drupal.org 2014 roadmap brainstorming

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