On 4 June 2010 14:43, Tim Penhey <[email protected]> wrote: > What I was trying to say on the bug was that we should look into a general > event notification system to notify external systems of internal events.
+1 > I'd love to hear ideas of what we could use or do. So it seems to me there are two main possibilities: 1- Create a bunch more feeds about all different aspects of Launchpad, such as the one cited in that bug. Complementary to this you can set up pubsubhubbub so that there is less polling load on the server and less latency to clients. But that doesn't change the basic approach that you'd be creating a feed per kind-of-thing and that clients subscribe on that basis. 2- Do a more generic "stream of notifications" where people can subscribe by pattern matching. I believe this is more where xmpp would take you. So we would publish tuples of activity and users would see some interesting subset. In a sense they're isomorphic and you could have one interface internally and present the other on top but I think there is a difference of approach. I guess there is also 0 - Let people just poll over the API, which is how you could find out about outstanding reviews at the moment. Pretty slow and pretty hard on the server, and there are reasonable queries that will essentially never complete this way. -- Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/> _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
