Right now, if certain users should be excluded, that would have
to be part of the user-locators already. This is annoying because
it's hard to write "generic" user locators when you want to exclude
just a couple of people in certain cases.
In Flow, for example, we have user-locators for users watching a
board or topic. We don't want to send the notification to people
that have also been mentioned in that post (they'll get a separate
notification). We could build that exception into those
user-locators, but then we couldn't re-use them in other places...
This basically means we couldn't use EchoUserLocator::locateUsersWatchingTitle,
we would have to roll our own that also excludes mentioned users.
Instead, this lets you add 'user-filters' (that functionality
actually exists already, but is not currently exposed), which
lists users to not send the notification to, even though they could
be in a user-locator.
Bug: T125428
Change-Id: Ifa0e2d3283f57624af4c5ec264f9f66223508e83
While user-locators are the "new hotness", most events still get their
list of users by calling a hook. That means this log message basically
just spams up the prod echo log for no benefit.
Change-Id: Iba5a8267c4ecc5a7446b287759d8b66adf0e2387
There are a variety of generic strategies you could define to choose
which users should be notified about an event, such as 'users watching
the title' or 'talk page owner' (User_talk only).
This adds a new way to generically implement these in Echo and expose them
to other extensions rather than having each extension implement these
generic strategies themselves.
This patch only converts one notification, edit-user-talk. The remaining
notifications will be converted in future patches. The first user of this
will be Flow for notifying all users watching a particular talk page in
I4e46a9c003fbdde274b20ac7aef8455eab4a5222
The users watching title implementation provided here is minimalist, a larger
refactor to accomidate pages with thousands of watchers is being handled
in I3d3fa9328f348bb48682d3658622952ce82d3925
Change-Id: I19bb6a794d22565f3bb5421de92426d390197796
