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

zuzel.vp zuzel.vp at gmail.com
Tue May 8 16:23:38 UTC 2012


On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Philipp Schmidt <philipp at p2pu.org> wrote:
> 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 django group id (I think you mean the slug contained on the urls)
does not has the lenght restrictions so it will have the same problem
of needing to be truncated).

>>
>>
>> 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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