Bug 325753

Summary: Please install/enable email notification for the openSUSE wiki site
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE.org Reporter: Boyd Timothy <btimothy>
Component: WikiAssignee: Matthew Ehle <matthew.ehle>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact: Adrian Schröter <adrian.schroeter>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None CC: barb.beckstead, federico, forgotten_nqeDWc8OMK, hpj, hvogel, sreeves, tschmidt
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
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Business Priority: 300 Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---
Deadline: 2010-03-12   

Description Boyd Timothy 2007-09-17 17:57:41 UTC
Many other online wiki sites allow users to subscribe/watch a wiki page and be notified via email when the page is modified.  Although a watchlist is currently available on the openSUSE wiki right now, it requires me to log in to the wiki and check manually.

With email notification [1], users who set it up in their preferences can be alerted to important changes much more quickly.

[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Email_notification
Comment 1 Boyd Timothy 2007-11-01 12:21:14 UTC
Can we get an update on the progress here?  When can we plan on seeing this?
Comment 2 Martin Lasarsch 2007-11-16 11:27:49 UTC
my plan is to enable it on Monday. 
Comment 3 Martin Lasarsch 2007-11-19 17:47:41 UTC
it's enabled, please check it. It send mails on all articles you ever touched (only if another user makes changes). If i understand it correctly ...

enable it in your user prefs. Let's test it a few days before we announce it.
Comment 4 Boyd Timothy 2007-11-29 16:32:02 UTC
I've enabled it in my preferences (by checking the "Send me an email on page changes") but I haven't received any emails.  Is it working for you Martin?
Comment 5 Martin Lasarsch 2007-11-29 16:37:39 UTC
yes, it only works on pages you changed before. So change a page, send me the link, i will change something and you should recieve a mail. You will not when you change it yourself ...
Comment 6 Boyd Timothy 2007-11-29 19:37:46 UTC
Ah, correction.  I do get notified.  Is there any way to make it so it sends the changes to me _in_ the email so I don't actually have to visit the wiki page to see what changed?  http://live.gnome.org/ has this feature and it's extremely handy.
Comment 7 Forgotten User nqeDWc8OMK 2007-11-29 20:01:03 UTC
was this change implemented only on the en wiki?
I mostly work with the es wiki, and I didn't receive any notification since activation.
Comment 8 Martin Lasarsch 2007-11-30 19:26:00 UTC
#6: i don't know. our mediawiki version is quite old, i didn't found more options to tune it. Yes, we should update sometime soon.
#7: it's a global feature, please check the accountsettings
Comment 9 Forgotten User nqeDWc8OMK 2007-12-13 12:21:11 UTC
I can confirm is working fine.
Comment 10 Andreas Jaeger 2008-02-19 12:29:52 UTC
INfo provided.
Comment 13 Thomas Schmidt 2010-01-20 12:01:36 UTC
Assigning to new wiki team. Klaas wanted to add support for hermes in the wiki notifications.
Comment 14 Thomas Schmidt 2010-02-18 10:58:52 UTC
The notifications are working on the staging system. 
Mehle: Could you please enable postfix on wiki.o.o and check if it's working?
Comment 15 Matthew Ehle 2010-03-02 21:25:04 UTC
We have hermes support added in now... marking as resolved.
Comment 16 Thomas Schmidt 2010-03-03 09:06:38 UTC
The Hermes support is additional, as it cannot create a subscription for the watched pages of a user. Could you please check the postfix settings on 
wiki.o.o so we could also enble the wiki notifications? 
(They are enabled in the wiki, but not being delivered, maybe /var/log/mail 
contains something interesting).
Comment 17 Matthew Ehle 2010-03-04 20:35:52 UTC
Could I get some more detail on what is needed in this case?  I'm assuming you need basic sendmail.  Is this correct?
Comment 18 Thomas Schmidt 2010-03-05 09:44:32 UTC
That's right, the setup with postfix on the staging server seems to work, 
I am getting the email notifications from there.
Comment 19 Thomas Schmidt 2010-03-08 10:39:55 UTC
Mail notifications are working now for en.opensuse.org
Comment 20 Matthew Ehle 2010-03-08 15:20:46 UTC
Sorry, I forgot to mark this as resolved.  Yes, I did get sendmail set up on all the wiki servers a few days ago.  Thank you for verifying.