[p2pu-dev] small fix with big impact / notification emails (need help)

[Philipp Schmidt]

On 7 May 2012 12:23, Dirk Uys <dirk at p2pu.org> wrote:

> Hi Philipp
>
> One possibility would be add a course/challenge short name, the same way
> that many universities does it. A challenge called "Programming for
> beginners" can then choose to use a short name like "programming101",
> "pro101", "pro001", etc. This will then be the name that will be used in
> email subject lines.
>

That's a good idea. For the moment we could even just use the django group
ID, "course xxx". Not nice, but it wouldn't require any changes to the UX.


>
> The short name should be unique and it will also be restricted to a
> certain length (20). We can also supply further guidelines if we feel it's
> necessary.
>
> Cheers
> d
>
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Philipp Schmidt <philipp at p2pu.org> wrote:
>
>> I have an itch I can't scratch and hope that someone on the list finds
>> this an interesting problem to get involved in.
>>
>> The problem -> Our notification email subject headers. Here is what new
>> notification emails look like in my Inbox:
>>
>> http://cl.ly/1V2S0f2P1K3I3W08323o
>>
>> -> Special characters in the subject are not displayed correctly ...
>> '
>>
>> -> The [text in square brackets] is randomly truncated .... "Hunting in t"
>>
>> It would be awesome if any of the Python hackers on this list could help
>> - and send a pull request that fixes those two issues. I'm happy to help
>> think through alternatives for the truncation if that would be useful. By
>> email on the list or on skype (username iphilipp).
>>
>> The notification emails are one of the most prominent way that new users
>> interact with our site. Even a minor improvement would make a big
>> difference.
>>
>> P
>>
>>
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