656396 - Undo deletes in private messages

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(support.mozilla.org :: Users and Groups, task, P4)

Description

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

It should be possible to undo deletes in private messages--at least for a small window. A couple of suggested implementations:

* Ajaxify delete and use set/clearTimeout to not post the request immediately.
* Add a "deleted" column and wipe out deleted objects on a cron.[1]
* Use delayed tasks but make the task check something before actually deleting.

[1] If we used a nullable datetime column we could have a cron that only wiped out messages that had been deleted for >1min, and consider messages "not deleted" if deleted IS NULL. With a bool, we run the risk of a message getting deleted by the cron while the "undo" should still be available.

Comment 1

[Andrew Truong [:feer56] [:andrewtruong] [:atruong]]

Maybe we should have a trash folder instead of an undo button?

Comment 2

[David Weir (satdav)]

is this getting added to the next sprint as would be good

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Andrew Truong [:feer56] [:andrewtruong] from comment #1)
> Maybe we should have a trash folder instead of an undo button?

+1