Weekly/ Monthly digest for publiclab.org

[ananyo2012]

Just thought of moving this to a separate issue Based on tag subscriptions we can send customized digest.
Digest can include research notes as well as questions.

Steps to solve

Rough steps that need to be followed

• Suggest a possible design for the email template
• Add a method in Subscription mailer for sending digests
• Defining a method in User Model to call the Subscription Mailer method since subscriptions will be based on tag preferences (solved in Display "activity from past day" in a list at /subscriptions/digest #2027)
• ability to change timeframe of /subscriptions/digest to weekly or monthly like Github Pulse has

[jywarren]

This may need to be broken into smaller parts to be effectively solved; adding break-me-up.

[ananyo2012]

@jywarren Yes please list way to break up the issue. This is labelled as a Google Code-in task so we need to make it as clear to students as possible. If it isn't taken by by end of the contest we can take it up ourselves as well.

[jywarren]

I think this needs some thinking through -- but what about if:

• we made a User.subscribed_content(period) which collected all the nodes answers, and comments made in the specified period (solved in Display "activity from past day" in a list at /subscriptions/digest #2027)

(UPDATED: moved some issues over to #2104 and checked off or deleted remainder)

If we do this right, we can write tests against all of these steps before actually writing a mailer or testing by email, and we can ensure this'll work without having to do risky email testing on production!

[jywarren]

Worked on breaking this up in #2027 and we'll need some of this in there too -- specifically the stuff in my last comment about finding the people who should get notified at a specific time! I think we may want to switch to a profile tag like digest:daily or digest:weekly and send to everyone once per day using that... not sure.

[steviepubliclab]

This type of curated information could also be useful for the https://publiclab.org/wiki/requests page.

[ebarry]

There seems to be language on the /subscriptions page that is both leftover from GoogleGroups and aspirational-but-not-yet-achieved until the features in this issue are created:

The actual text reads:

Subscriptions let you keep up to date with topics on Public Lab. You can choose to receive them by email or in digest form.

We should remove the second sentence and just keep the first until these features exist.

Am i wrong?

[jywarren]

Great -- however, we can change that to or view them in digest form linked to /subscriptions/digest as soon as #2058 is complete -- that implements the initial version of the weekly digest (although it's not emailed yet -- just displayed!)

[jywarren]

This is really getting broken up into pieces and solved!!! :-) 👍 🎈 💥

[visheshruparelia]

I'd like to work on this for GSOC2018. Can anyone guide me further on this?

[steviepubliclab]

Hi there, All the planning and organizing for GSoC will be on this page <https://publiclab.org/wiki/gsoc>. Looking forward to seeing your ideas. -Stevie

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[jywarren]

Hi, @visheshruparelia -- please take a look through https://publiclab.github.io/community-toolbox/#r=all -- we'd love to have your help with one of those! Or if they're all taken, perhaps a https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/help-wanted

however, if @Gauravano has an idea of where you could help with this one, maybe!

[ebarry]

Great to see that https://publiclab.org/subscriptions/digest exists and is working!
What improvements should come next?

[jywarren]

#2378 is a good next step!

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[ViditChitkara]

Hi everyone,
Thinking of using resque as the queuing backend for this (maybe we'd require capistrano for this work on production), @icarito could you please give your thoughts on this? Please look through https://publiclab.org/notes/vidit/02-16-2018/gsoc-18-email-notification-overhaul#c18986
@jywarren , @ebarry , @steviepubliclab , @ananyo2012 I'd love to have your reviews too.

[jywarren]

Hi, i'll try to take a look tomorrow, thanks! Just returned from a long flight (dubai!). I'm going to add a few items to the top of this issue, though, including:

• ability to change timeframe of /subscriptions/digest to weekly or monthly like Github Pulse has
• should we try to merge some of the back-end methods (Tag or Node models) with those we use in the Tag pages, where we're also trying to enable time slices? Or the Stats pages?

[jywarren]

@ViditChitkara perhaps we can try to summarize and consolidate as much as we can from this into your new planning issue? Or consolidate more here? Either way!

[ViditChitkara]

I am comfortable with both!! I guess we can discuss things to be done on the planning issue.

[jywarren]

Merging this into #2104 🎉