It was probably more than a year ago D.
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Imtiaz Ahmed H E <[email protected]> wrote: > You said , 'a while ago'; I don't think I saw an email from any 'David' in > the last one day. > > When was this ? > > Imtiaz > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vassil Dichev" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 12:47 PM > Subject: Re: Tracks - should we keep them? > > >> A while ago David mentioned that he wanted to unify tracks and >> actions, because most filter conditions are reused by both. The one >> major difference is that tracks work on all messages, while actions >> work only on messages in your timeline. Maybe it's worth thinking >> about factoring out common things. >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Richard Hirsch <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Ethan Jewett <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Well, as Vassil has pointed out, the tracks do a lot more than just >>>> tracking >>>> tags, so they definitely still offer something. Unfortunately they also >>>> are >>>> not very accessible to the average user. >>>> >>>> This type of question is part of the reason that I created ESME-285 ( >>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ESME-285) in Release 1.2, so that >>>> we >>>> can make the decision to turn something like Tracks off by default, but >>>> leave it in the code base. I'm not saying that is necessarily the right >>>> decision here, but it is an option. >>>> >>>> Regarding lists of things being tracked, we need to figure out a >>>> reasonable >>>> item-tracking-management interface so that people can see everything >>>> they >>>> are following in one place and manage it. Maybe that is what "Tracks" >>>> should >>>> become eventually? I think that's a little ways off (maybe not Release >>>> 1.2 >>>> material), but definitely an interesting UI challenge. >>> >>> I like the idea of having one place to track everything I follow: >>> * Tags >>> * Conversations >>> * People >>> ... >>> >>> It would also be useful to be able to turn the items on and off at one >>> location. >>> >>>> >>>> Ethan >>>> >>>> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Richard Hirsch >>>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> Now that we can follow conversations and tags, do we still need tracks >>>>> as well? Besides the fact that I get a list of things I track, I don't >>>>> see any reason to keep them. >>>>> >>>>> D. >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/vdichev >> Blog: http://speaking-my-language.blogspot.com > >
