And filling out the history: https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/KERNDOC/480+-+Activity+REST+services
https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KERN-178 On 4/20/12 12:04 PM, Simon Gaeremynck wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I caught this mail by accident. > I was one of the original developers on the activity bundle (together with > Lance IIRC), > but all of this is over 2 years ago so I might recall things poorly. > > The idea behind the activity feed was that widgets could push out there own > events. > Each activity would hold an app-id and a template-id. > > A template would hold the structure of a message and the activity node itself > would store the actual data. > Something along the lines of how Facebook displays messages in your stream: > ${name} commented on a photo. > > Outside of a demo on a Sakai conference it never really got used in the UI (2 > years ago!) > > Cheers, > > Simon > > > > On 20 Apr 2012, at 20:29, Chris Tweney wrote: > >> I'm heavily refactoring the activity bundle for 1.3.0. I noticed what >> appears to be an unused feature: Activity Templates. >> >> Every activity has a mandatory property "sakai:activity-templateid", but >> the only value I ever see is "default". There's a directory in >> /var/activity/templates that contains only a README that reads "TODO >> Edit this file". There aren't any real code references to >> "sakai:activity-templateid", only a few scattered instances in tests. >> >> This has all the hallmarks of an orphan feature. I hate leaving unused >> code in the code base. >> >> Does anyone know what this is? Will anyone be sad if I remove it? >> >> -chris >> _______________________________________________ >> oae-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/oae-dev > > _______________________________________________ > oae-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/oae-dev > _______________________________________________ oae-dev mailing list [email protected] http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/oae-dev
