[geeklog-devel] GSoC 2008: Core notification service

[Joe Mucchiello]

There's a very important missing subsystem: Email Throttle. On a 
shared host a system with 50 users and a couple new stories could 
easily cause Geeklog to overrun a per hour limit found on some shared 
hosts. Some are as low as 200 emails per hour. I've been kicking 
around a central email plugin for GL and part of the reason was so 
you could throttle bulk emails in a manner that doesn't get your 
email privileges turned off by your shared host.

Admins may also want to limit the number of emails sent per day to a 
user (or even a domain) so they don't get spam-bucketed at places 
like yahoo and hotmail. The mail subsystem should be able to combine 
multiple notifications over a period of time to a user into one email.

Finally, if users have an inbox and they can receive a real email 
when something arrives in their inbox, most systems do not send 
another email until your next login.

   Joe

At 05:25 PM 3/18/2008, Blaine Lang wrote:

>Tony,

>

>The proposal for this project is not for a full-blown message queue 

>sub-system for a component to component messaging service or to form 

>the base for an event mgmt service. It is intended to be just as 

>described in the project overview, a better way of handling 

>notifications from plugins to the member. Like facebook has - the 

>inbox and place to receive notifications from installed applications 

>and options to allow the member to determine what notifications they 

>want to receive.

>

>The initial focus of the project will be to develope the API 

>framework but also an initial basic "My Inbox" that can evolve to 

>incorporate private messaging to members, groups. Later to be 

>extended with the user admin features to define trusted groups of 

>friends - see the Social Networking project definition.

>

>Blaine

>

>Tony Bibbs wrote:

>>Just for reference, some of this proposed functionality is already 

>>part of the GL2 codebase.

>>

>>Not exactly as Konstantin pitched it as there are some design 

>>considerations that we could go round-and-round on but the very 

>>core of that whole observer/observable pattern is there.  I have no 

>>real reason for sending this other than if this does get 

>>incorporated into 1.x you may want to take his suggestion along 

>>with what we've done there into consideration.

>>

>>Thanks for Vinny to pointing this out....this email almost fell 

>>into oblivion.

>>

>>--Tony

>>

>>----- Original Message ----

>>From: Konstantin Mikhaylov <jtraub.devel at gmail.com>

>>To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

>>Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:27:20 AM

>>Subject: [geeklog-devel] GSoC 2008: Core notification service

>>

>>Hello guys.

>>

>>I congratulate you with acceptance in GSoC 2008.

>>

>>Can i recieve some feedback on my proposal?

>>It is located http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dd4t2984_0cf3526cd

>>

>>Any thoughts and suggestions are very appreciated.

>>Sorry for my bad english

>>

>>--

>>Thanks, Konstantin

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