[p2pu-dev] p2pu notifications not being sent

Jos Flores josmasflores at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 07:54:35 UTC 2012


I would love a Hackathon but it would have to be a weekend. I think
there was an application for GSoC this year but was not successful,
right? Just a matter of keep on trying! :)

cheers,
José


On 1 June 2012 08:25, Dirk Uys <dirk at p2pu.org> wrote:
> I like the way this conversation is going! We should definitely have a
> discussion about the development priorities! As soon as John gets back
> we'll schedule a time to talk about it, maybe during the weekly tech
> call that happens on Wednesdays at 14:00 UTC?
>
> Maybe we can have a hackathon some time? We can focus on a specific
> area of functionality like site notifications, CSS or UX for example.
>
> The grad student idea is also a good idea! Maybe we can also
> participate in programs like "Google Summer of Code"?
>
> Cheers
> d
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Jessy Kate Schingler
> <jessy at jessykate.com> wrote:
>> stian we just talked about your exact points on the community call.
>>
>> it's always a longer conversation to set big high level dev priorities and i
>> haven't been involved in that lately myself, but on the call we were
>> recognizing that a lot of functionality has been discussed and wished for
>> around notifications, that we haven't gotten to yet. and that it would be
>> nice to have a time to discuss and think about what dev priorities could be
>> around notifications and understand what the competiting priorities are (as
>> there are always many).
>>
>> i don't know how/where dev priorities are currently being set or when jon
>> gets back from vacation, but perhaps we could set aside a time to discuss
>> this in that context, or on the community call if that is better? thoughts?
>>
>> on a related note, this also makes me think about what we could do to build
>> up a more active developer community around lernanta, since no matter how
>> heroic dirk might be, there will always be more than he can do just himself!
>> one thing that came to mind is trying to get more researchers and grad
>> students contributing, which would get them more involved in creating
>> features that work for them, and they could also do research measuring the
>> effectiveness of the new features (eg. a paper showing participation metrics
>> before and after two-way email integration). just a thought.
>>
>> jessy
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Alison Cole <alison at p2pu.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> My inbox exploded. I got 79 messages. Today will be a long day of catching
>>> up.
>>>
>>> Thanks Jessy for catching and Dirk for fixing!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Stian Håklev <shaklev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ah, that's why I suddenly got lots of notifications, I was wondering at
>>>> the explosion of activity! :)
>>>>
>>>> However this raises three other issues, in increasing importance:
>>>>
>>>> 1. The title of the group is still weirdly formatted: The
>>>> Researchers' Homestead
>>>>
>>>> 2. Could we clean up the formatting? Is there a reason why the person's
>>>> name is not in the "from" field instead of "no-reply"? Do we need all the
>>>> boiler plate at the top of the message:
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> The Researchers' Homestead was updated.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jennifer Claro posted a new comment at May 26 - June 1
>>>> Compliance-without-pressure techniques for Online Communities.
>>>>
>>>> Comment:
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> 3. Can we prioritize up enabling two-way email integration (ie being able
>>>> to reply to messages and have them posted on the forum).
>>>>
>>>> To my mind, GitHub issues are great examples of something we should
>>>> strive towards. They have very nicely formatted subject lines - from the
>>>> person sending it (but the from email address is a reply-to at github), the
>>>> subject line is simply [project shortname] Topic, and when you open the
>>>> message the first thing you see is the actual message, then there are two
>>>> lines at the bottom giving you the option of opening the message in GitHub.
>>>> And of course you can easily reply to the message directly. And they thread
>>>> perfectly in GMail - I have had discussions in GitHub issue messages going
>>>> back and forth for 28 messages, most of them sent from GMail, and it works
>>>> seemlessly - and is also nicely stored for posterity on GitHub.com.
>>>>
>>>> I really believe improving on this can have a huge impact on
>>>> participation in our discussion-based courses!
>>>>
>>>> Stian
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Dirk Uys <dirk at p2pu.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> When I checked to see if celeryd is running, I noticed that
>>>>> /etc/init.d wasn't executable. I don't know how that happened? I fixed
>>>>> that, so next time we go down for a reboot everything should be fine.
>>>>> I guess we'll see a little later today when Linode do their scheduled
>>>>> maintenance.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll use the opportunity to make a checklist for system reboot.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Philipp Schmidt <philipp at p2pu.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > Hm. I suspect it didn't come up when the server rebooted.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Can we add it to the init process so that it comes up automatically?
>>>>> >
>>>>> > (And set up a check list that we verify after each reboot)
>>>>> >
>>>>> > P
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On 31 May 2012 10:40, Jos Flores <josmasflores at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> hahaha, I'm getting batches of mails now :)
>>>>> >> thanks for the quick fix!
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> José
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> On 31 May 2012 09:26, Dirk Uys <dirk at p2pu.org> wrote:
>>>>> >> > Problem sorted, celeryd wasn't running. I hope no ones inbox
>>>>> >> > explodes
>>>>> >> > today :)
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> > Cheers
>>>>> >> > d
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Dirk Uys <dirk at p2pu.org> wrote:
>>>>> >> >> I'll look into it ASAP!
>>>>> >> >>
>>>>> >> >> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Jessy Kate Schingler
>>>>> >> >> <jessy at jessykate.com> wrote:
>>>>> >> >>> hey guys,
>>>>> >> >>>
>>>>> >> >>> i just noticed i haven't been receiving email alerts for the
>>>>> >> >>> researchers'
>>>>> >> >>> homestead and then another participant mentioned the same. this
>>>>> >> >>> is a
>>>>> >> >>> kind of
>>>>> >> >>> a big deal since it's the primary way we know if people are
>>>>> >> >>> participating
>>>>> >> >>> and can reward/engage with them :). any idea what's up? are
>>>>> >> >>> others
>>>>> >> >>> experiencing this?
>>>>> >> >>>
>>>>> >> >>> the last notification i received was may 21.
>>>>> >> >>> --
>>>>> >> >>> Jessy
>>>>> >> >>> http://jessykate.com
>>>>> >> >>>
>>>>> >> >>>
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