[katello-devel] RFC: Notification system

[Hugh Brock]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 08:12:15AM -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> On 08/14/2012 08:00 AM, Hugh Brock wrote:
> >(cc-ing katello-devel)
> >
> >On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:39:56AM +0100, Dmitri Dolguikh wrote:
> >>On 13/08/12 10:26 PM, Matt Wagner wrote:
> >>>Hi folks,
> >>>
> >>>I've been dwelling on user notifications a bit more. #3623 implies this
> >>>functionality, and there are some comments visible here:
> >>>https://www.aeolusproject.org/redmine/issues/3623
> >>>
> >>>We have some licensing difference between our projects (grr!),
> >>Not sure if this is a conversation for this mailing list, but was
> >>there a conversation about licensing of projects and if we could all
> >>use the same license?
> >>
> >>-d
> >
> >Yeah this is actually a good thing to bring up.
> >
> >Aeolus moved to the Apache license from GPL v2+about 18 months ago for various
> >reasons -- Deltacloud is an Apache project, ASL seems more
> >familiar/comfortable to the Ruby world, etc.
> >
> >If Katello upstream and associated projects are interested, I think it
> >would be beneficial to have everyone on the Apache license (and
> >obviously also make code sharing a bit simpler). Given that we can
> >always ask Katello to dual-license code we want to share between
> >projects, it's not that big of a deal either way.
> >
> >Take care,
> >--Hugh
> >
> 
> Will talk about licensing. Is there a definitive "Why ASL is better?
> Or is it just because Apache are bullies? Perhaps katello should
> just go MIT?

IIUC ASL and MIT are ~ compatible so I think you could do either.

The main benefits we were chasing with ASL were 1. fewer restrictions on
re-use of 3rd party contributions, and 2. no requirement to release the
source for the product. 

> On notifications, the other thing I would like to see (ideally a
> shared service) is the ability to send email notificaitons out to
> one or more users based on events. I would assume templating,
> batching, and some sort of data injection. We have that on the
> errata side (jomara is looking at it). Perhaps we can have folks
> co-develop that part too.

Yeah this is a very good idea I think. 

--H

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