Hello Eduard,

It's funny that this happens right now, while we are fiddling in the 
ActivityStream (of XWiki 3.5.1, as subclassed by curriki).
We are doing so to offer notifications for gpsnetwork.org: daily digests and 
immediate.

So the first request is to enable a hook for immediate notification (a groovy 
page?) and digest notifications, I find.

What I like in the use-cases is the notion of grouping (this tastes like a 
transaction id of some sort): I am sure we can make use of this in various 
places, including the way to track the series of save operations that happen 
when you create a document or resource (currently, Curriki has a minimum 
version numbers and, not surprisingly, one one of them was wrong).

The big deal of performance and extensibility sounds quite hard to me.
They are opposed to each other.
We know that the ActivityStream can be hogged and we would avoid relying on it 
if we create some intensive event stream (e.g. in some form of analytics); 
nonetheless, the performance sounds reasonable thus far. Extensibility cannot 
happen thus far. We have… param1, param2, …, param5. And that is almost enough 
(we started to add one of them to be a json record to get more space!). The 
problem with extensibility is the storage form: If you add an event type, you 
add a hibernate mapping.

Curriki has wrapped events for this: they are created based on param1, …, 
param5 and document names, when the stream is displayed.

When pondering real hard core analytics, we have been considering a few 
alternatives, e.g. CouchDB or MongoDB. But this has never made its way. I am 
convinced Solr would do the trick too.
Somehow, there must be storage forms that take advantage of the very peculiar 
nature of the event streams:
- only inserts, no updates
- reads that can be application defined, and probably can assert that an amount 
of events is not useful anymore.

As for the all the research about the macro, we stay way from that, since 
Curriki has its own set of UIs.

Paul



On 18 juil. 2014, at 16:32, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi devs,
> 
> As part of the investigation on the Activity Stream Refactoring for the 6.2
> roadmap, I have written a couple of documents [1] on some of the problems
> (specifically performance [2]) of the current implementation and also tried
> to list various use cases [3] that a better AS implementation should
> support.
> 
> I would like to ask you to:
> - help out in listing possible use cases [3] that I have missed or you`d
> like AS to support,
> - offer your opinion on my current findings [1] and/or
> - share your thoughts on where should we go with the new implementation of
> AS.
> 
> Thanks,
> Eduard
> 
> ----------
> [1]
> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/AcitvityStreamRefactoring62
> [2]
> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/AcitvityStreamRefactoring62Performance
> [3]
> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/AcitvityStreamRefactoring62UseCases
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