On Tuesday 01 May 2012 09:12:28 you wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Julian Edwards > > <julian.edwa...@canonical.com> wrote: > > On Monday 30 Apr 2012 17:28:27 Jonathan Lange wrote: > >> We think that removing 'commercial' would make Launchpad simpler and > >> reduce its maintenance costs. However, we would want to still be able > >> to subscribe people without sending them emails. It's on this that we > >> want your input. > > > > Can you explain a bit more why you think it would make LP simpler? > > Bearing in > > mind you still want to do the same thing elsewhere: > Because it would have less stuff in it.
I thought you said you wanted to remove it and implement it differently, which doesn't say to me that it would have less stuff in it. I'm sorry if I misunderstood you? > What do you mean by the same > thing elsewhere? Do you mean preventing other "normal" PPA emails from > going out? Yes, you want to prevent PPA emails going to SC users, right? > If that's the behaviour we need (mails sent to uploaders who aren't > archive subscribers or if the archive is used for the Software > Centre), then that sounds like intrinsic complexity. All decoupling > will do is take the 'if' statements about mail in Soyuz and turn them > into 'if' statements about events in a mail dispatcher. Yes, that's true to some extent, but if you'd seen the code I am talking about you'd be fairly horrified. :) > > Ideally we need a separate subscription mechanism that clearly delineates > > email sending from the Soyuz innards. I think Rob had some ideas for that > > to use Rabbit as part of the SOA push. Decoupling email entirely from LP > > would be marvellous. > > Well, that's rather paralyzing. Is there no middle ground? There almost certainly is. I was just pointing out where Rob wants to go with emails in the hope that we/you can do something that is heading in that direction. I'd hate for you to write something that is thrown away at some point! Sorry, I can't really spend a great deal of time helping since I am not really working on LP these days, although I'm very happy to at least try and help someone else improve this area as it's one that I know well and have spent far too long getting frustrated about. Cheers J _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
