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Mirror of RedHen from http://drupal.org/project/redhen
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History #57

Open unclegcb opened 8 years ago

unclegcb commented 8 years ago

Was "Activity". Used "message" module previously, may be reasonable to continue using but may not be necessary.

ruscoe commented 7 years ago

@unclegcb Is there anything specific the Message module adds that we couldn't do with a simple custom entity and a view?

unclegcb commented 7 years ago

Nothing specific that I had in mind. Certainly it's a classic decision between sharing a code base and absorbing some bloat, but getting the features and maintenance that message adds vs having our own code to maintain but avoiding message bloat and potential decisions we won't like.

I haven't looked closely, but here would be my questions:

  1. How close is Message to our needed features?
  2. How much "extra" is Message doing that we don't need?
  3. How likely is it that people will have Message on their sites anyway?
  4. How hard is it to create & maintain another entity of our own?
  5. Is Message working on D8?

Got any clear ideas about these? Sounds like you are comfortable with 4. As for 5, it appears they have an alpha and are currently working on the module actively.

ruscoe commented 7 years ago

@unclegcb I'll do some more research into these and update here.