[Chandler-dev] Re: [Proposal] Hub Settings Dialog + Notifications

[Mimi Yin]

On May 1, 2008, at 8:37 AM, Randy Letness wrote:

> Mimi Yin wrote:
>> I have pulled together a proposal for setting up notifications + a  
>> more general "clean-up" of the Settings dialog.
>>
>> http://chandlerproject.org/Notes/HubDialogRehaul
>
> I don't quite understand the first dialog that appears when "Get  
> Notifications" is clicked from the collection details sidebar.   It  
> may be confusing because it would seem you could set different  
> email addresses and different frequencies for different  
> collections, which we weren't going to support the first go  
> around.  I think this should link to the notifications tab in  
> account settings where its clear all collections you select go to  
> the email address(es) you provide and frequency you set.

Which dialog are you referring to Randy? ticket_sidebar.png?
- That's for users who don't have accounts: http:// 
chandlerproject.org/pub/Notes/HubDialogRehaul/ticket_sidebar.png
>
>> *A few questions:*
>> - Randy, would it be easy to add the ability to send notification  
>> emails to people who don't have Hub accounts? I think casual  
>> collaborators who receive sharing tickets would find it valuable  
>> to be able to get notifications.
>
> If you are talking about the ability to add more email  
> addresses,then yes that wouldn't be too hard.
>
>> - Randy, I know we talked about simply re-using the user's account- 
>> email address. But I think it might be important to let users  
>> choose their own. I know I never sign up for accounts with email  
>> accounts I actually check regularly.
>
> If we do this then we might as well allow multiple addresses to be  
> entered.

Does this add a lot of work on the server end? I think we could get  
away with a simple UI where you just separate email addresses with  
commas.

>
> -Randy
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