638263 - [tracker] Activity streams for users

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(support.mozilla.org :: Users and Groups, task, P1)

Description

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

We need streams of activity a user might care about. We want these to be small, fast, and flexible. Think of the Github dashboard. These will show up on users' "Review" dashboards.

We'll need:
* A model for the activity (sketch below)
* A way of sending the activity to the correct users (offline)
* A way of viewing it (the dashboard)

The basic idea is to generate an "inbox" for each user of the activity they care about. We don't need to store historic data forever. We could consider limiting it to 1-3 months, or between 20-200 per user, or other methods.


Sketch of a model:

class Activity(ModelBase):
    user = ForeignKey
    created = DateTime
    title = Char
    url = URL(null)
    description = Char(null)
    object = GenericForeignKey(null)  # for cascading deletes

Then each object for a user is basically put into this template:

<li>
    <a href="{{ a.url }}">{{ a.title }}</a>
    <p>{{ a.description }}</p>
    <datetime>{{ a.created }}</datetime>
</li>

For example, if someone replied to a discussion forum thread, we might write to the activity log of everyone else who'd posted in that thread so far.

By doing it this way, we can do things like localize the title/description for everyone. There will probably be some overlap with notifications but let's wait until we know what the extent of that is before jumping on to anything, especially given the goal of liberating notifications.

Comment 1

[Erik Rose [:erik][:erikrose]]

See the etherpad, too: http://etherpad.mozilla.org:9000/sumo-users-and-groups

Comment 2

[Paul Craciunoiu [:paulc]]

No open blockers, so win, afaict! Reopen if I'm missing something.

Comment 3

[Rebecca Billings [:rbillings]]

Closing as verified via the other bugs