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
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