Hi Evan,
No problem. Several users of my own instance of StatusNet asked for this
feature; it seemed a straight-forward addition of a new column,
"privacy," to the user table in the database, followed by a method to
check whether a user wants their notices private or not. I take the
needs of my users seriously, and I thought I might make a contribution
to the project by taking a crack at it. However, if you feel I'm behind
the curve on this one I'm happy to step out.
Since I see that a lot of things are migrating to plugins for the
future, perhaps then I'll try to write a privacy plugin for my site and
use it locally. I hate maintaining private patches to core code, so a
plugin might negate the need to do that. Don't know if the plugin
interface will let you do such things, but I can learn.
Regards,
Steve
Evan Prodromou wrote:
I'd prefer that you save yourself a lot of work and wait until core devs
have figured this out.(We haven't.) Doing privacy correctly is
incredibly hard, and developer new to our codebase, however talented, is
not going to get it right.
There is a lot to do in the project. Please: cut your teeth on something
else (we desperately need an irc plugin, for example) and talk directly
to me before writing a line of code for privacy.
~Evan
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