[ckan-dev] RFC: Activity streams on-site and email notifications

Mon Oct 22 14:46:55 UTC 2012

I suspect you may already be familiar with these links, but would like to
share them anyway:

http://smiy.sourceforge.net/ao/spec/associationontology.html

http://activitystrea.ms/specs/

These may help with data modeling.

Best,
Salman

On 10/22/12 10:29 AM, "Sean Hammond" <sean.hammond at okfn.org> wrote:

>We have two tickets for pdeu, to implement on-site notification of new
>activity in your activity stream (i.e. a number in the corner of the
>site that tells you how many new activities you have) and to implement
>email notifications of new activities.
>
>I plan to start implementing these soon and I've put some implementation
>notes here:
>
>https://github.com/okfn/ckan/wiki/Spec:-Activity-Stream-Notifications
>
>Comments welcome.
>
>For the on-site notification, we need to add the concept of "seen" and
>"unseen" activities to the model on a per-user basis. My idea is to add
>a datetime column to the user table which records the last time they saw
>their activity stream, and count any activities newer than that as
>unseen.
>
>For the email notification the plan is to add an "unsent notifications"
>table to the database and add a notifier job that runs periodically and
>consumes rows from this table, sending them as emails (this is from an
>older spec for the same feature).
>
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