28 - Notifications

[SeriousBug]

This is the discussion for RFC 28 - Notifications.

[SR--]

Sounds very useful. Our group would definitely be interested. Ideally, this should be integrated with a TODO system, an existing plugin such as Todo Tree (this allows @ mentions, what will happen with those?) or the native one that has been previously mooted.

It will be important to hide or strip those for publishing.

[ScriptAutomate]

It would be excellent to see this notification system potentially expanded for tasks / TODO items to not just be for notifying @user, but also as reminders associated with dates assigned to notes. I do not know if this is out-of-scope here, but it sounds like the RFC is meant for a notification system, while using users.* is then listed an example of using the notification system. Task notes should definitely be included as being able to use the notification system as a way of relaying reminders or alerts on due or upcoming tasks.

[djradon]

I think this is a useful and even important feature to have. Confluence has this and it gets used all the time. Even though not always necessary, I think supporting automated email and chat notifications would greatly enhance the value. Could the frontmatter on the user's "user.username" page include notifying email addresses/chat handles? And maybe notification preferences too?

@SR-- I can definitely see use cases where people would want to retain these "notifying mentions" in the published version, so hiding/stripping should be optional. Seems like a hard problem though. To take @SeriousBug 's example of "I'm stuck on this issue, can [ ]@frances take a look at this?" -- would the whole sentence get stripped, or just the "notifying mention"?

[SR--]

@djradon Yes, good point. This has been discussed before. I agree that this should be an option. And perhaps @ mentions should work within and outside of comments...

Also agree or supporting optional additional means of notifying people, maybe in due course...

[djradon]

I can also see it being useful to be able to @-mention and notify groups. Confluence has this functionality.