Re: [edict-jmdict] Email notifications

[Stuart McGraw <smcg6347@***********>]

Hello Mislav, 

On 08/15/2016 08:20 AM, Mislav Blažević mislav.blazevic5@gmail.com [edict-jmdict] wrote:
> I've been contributing to the jmdict project for a while now and my biggest
> difficulty in doing so has been tracking comments to my recent amendments.
> Scrolling through today's submissions is rather tiring, especially when
> there's many of them. Is it possible to somehow subscribe myself to all the
> entries I've created or edited and get an email notification whenever
> someone makes an edit or a comment?

Not currently although that was one of the planned features back from the
inception of the project.  Unfortunately I have not been very active development-
wise lately for various reasons (although I hope to change that in the near
future).  And the open nature of the submissions process makes doing email 
notifications a little problematic -- since most submitters do so without any 
authentication (and the only provision for accounts and authentication is for 
registered editors), it would be easy to abuse a simple email notification 
implementation.
 
> If possible, I would also like to be
> subscribed to all words with either of these tags:
> [math][comp][physics][chem][geom].

This is an interesting idea that I don't think we have considered but will.

A possible workaround for now might be to use the advanced search page and in 
the History section, use the Submitter and From Date/To Date boxes.  Of course 
this requires that one uses a consistent name in their submissions.  

Unfortunately the search "and"s the given conditions so it will return a list 
of items which you have commented on within the from/to dates.  It would be more 
useful if there was a way to get items you have commented on (at any time) and 
which has other comments (by anyone) within the given dates. 

Monitoring a tagged set of words translates to searching for History records
between two dates without regard to the submitter name, with one or more of
the Field boxes checked. 

I'd be curious to know if such a search (maybe done via a different page (eg
"My Entries" or something) could be a acceptable substitute for email 
notifications since it would be much easier to implement (where "easier" = "more 
likely to actually happen" :-)  Of course the biggest difference between search 
and email notification is between "pull" and "push" notification and some may 
consider "push" the most important requirement. 

-- Stu