hbons/SparkleShare — Issue #433: Confused about announcements/revision notifications
Author: ckillian
Created: 2011-11-16 04:00:46+00:00
State: open

I just started using SparkleShare, and I'm confused about the current state of announcements/revision notifications. It looks like in 0.4 that IRC was abandoned as the default notification system. This is based on the NEWS file. But I've been unable to find any reference to the current design. I found a reference to the new default being a basic network notification system, but no details. Does this require any additional software to be installed server or client side? (It seems like it would need to, wouldn't it?) Is it going to fall-back to IRC if it cannot find a server? How do I know what networking SparkleShare is doing?

Sorry for the questions - I also couldn't figure out a better place to ask them. Thanks for the project - it does seem to be syncing files correctly, now I just want to understand more what it's doing and its capabilities. For example, from what I've read in the issues, it looks like previously direct commits on git would not work well with SparkleShare due to the notifications system. Is that still true?

Thanks,
Chip