Places in mahara not sending watchlist notification - but maybe should be

[Robert Lyon]

I noticed that testing mahara with
https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/4191/ and https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/4227/ that there were still a few places where the view mtime doesn't update when a block changes.

1) When adding/deleting files in Content -> Files that are used by folder/file download/image gallery blocks
2) When a navigation block's collection has more pages added to it
3) Recent forum posts block
4) Adding tasks to a plans

And possibly the external blocks as well

As changes to these areas can effect the change of a view should they send out watchlist notifications?

Or, if that is not necessary, should the changes update the view's mtime so that when sorting Portfolio -> Pages list by 'latest modified' it correctly ranks the pages.

[Aaron Wells (u-aaronw)]

Hm, I don't think there's a 100% "right" answer to this question. It gets to the nature of what it means for a page to be updated, when that page is an aggregate of many data sources.

I think what we should do on this is hold off, and not make any further data sources fire watchlist notifications unless we hear from someone in the community complaining about the lack of a watchlist notification. That will let us know if someone has a use case that actually requires it.

[Aaron Wells (u-aaronw)]

Another possible data source that a client brought up, is comments on the page!