[RFC 0/3] Add "events"

[Andy Doan]

On 10/20/2016 02:23 AM, Stephen Finucane wrote:
> On 2016-10-19 18:09, Andy Doan wrote:
>> On 10/18/2016 03:12 PM, Stephen Finucane wrote:
>>> Provide a way for users to get a list of events they may be interested
>>> in. This case be useful for CI systems or for general use in a ticker
>>> or similar system. The following events are supported now:
>>>
>>> - Patch Created
>>> - Patch Dependencies Met
>>> - Delegate Changed
>>> - State Changed
>>> - Check Added
>>>
>>> The following events are not yet supported, as they would require
>>> further database changes or not deliver tangible value:
>>>
>>> - Bundle Created/Changed
>>> - Comment Added
>>> - Tag Added
>>
>> This is a really cool. Two things:
>>
>> 1) I'm not sure I see the need for the "user" field? Events like Check
>> Added and Patch Created already have a User associated with the target
>> object. So I might say - don't bother with the user field until we see a
>> need for it.
> 
> Do I still have that? Yeah, it can be dropped. The idea was to record
> who exactly caused the event, i.e. who changed the patch status, but I
> can't do this using signals and ROI isn't significant enough to changing
> this. I'll remove for the final version.
> 
>> 2) Can you elaborate on how you plan to expose this data? ie something
>> via REST?
> 
> I've been thinking an '/events' API endpoint for now. This would require
> polling from CIs etc., but it would be a good first step.

Makes sense to me. If we had a /events?created_on__gte=TIMESTAMP, the
API could be used fairly efficiently.