haskell
User Notification emails
This is a mergable chunk that should almost resolve https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/issues/230
It has machinery for user preferences for which notifications to get, but no UI or API for them yet. Also, by default it has user preferences set to not get emails.
So it should be safe to review and merge as-is.
However, until we have a user-pref UI, nobody will be able to opt-in to it. And once that's done and we're comfortable, we can then cut over to an opt-in by default in the future.
There's also flags but no implementation work done yet for -- notifications on pending proposed tags -- notifications on docbuilder reports
As is it notifies on users being added to or removed from maintainer groups, and on metadata revisions and new package uploads -- which are the key things from a collaboration and transparency standpoint. The others, which can be in a future PR, are nice-to-have.
I think this chunk should be reviewed and merged when possible. But it will need to be paired, as I mentioned, with a user-pref UI that needs to be written. Basically we need a page where logged-in users can modify these settings, and one hasn't been written. This is a standalone chunk of work that anyone can pick up, though it requires understanding how all the acid-state component stuff works, to a degree.
If we had docbuilder notifications those also could be a good place to let users know what to do in the event of a build failed due to missing system packages.