Discussed during the remote hackathon with @bd808.
It would be nice if there was a way to have an automated email sent every so often on a regular interval with the results of a saved query. This would prompt users to work on tasks they have licked or start working on new things as they could have a report sent on these things to them.
@Dzahn has setup things like the list of tasks with past deadlines before so maybe they could help.
We currently have https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F31810082 but that requires direct access to Phab’s database.
I wonder if we could use the api
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/conduit/method/maniphest.search/ can be used for sure.
See also T76825#3078274 and discussion in that task in general - this task might be a duplicate.
I can imagine that such "nagging" digest emails work for some folks (similar to mailing list digests instead of single posts). I can also imagine that for the vast majority, more emails about something does not help when you might already struggle with the other emails you receive anyway (see also https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help/Managing_mail ). I know that this task says it should be optional, however I'm personally not convinced the gain outweighs the work...
Some pointers to things that may help work on this:
I’ll try and have a brain storm on Monday and see what I can create that will get this to work locally then port to toolforge and see if I can get email working.
Might need somehelp setting it up as a job running though.
I've created some code that can generate the list, let me try and get it onto a tool and emailing me.
The tool functions. once I squash a bug that I’ve created fixed and unfixed, it will be ready.
If anyone wants to use it, please send me how often you would like it sending and a link to the query.
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2020-05-11T14:02:42Z] <RhinosF1> set cron for '/usr/bin/jsub -N cron-29 -once -quiet python3 phab.py' to run weekly at Monday 3pm T252301
The script runs weekly on a Monday at 2pm UTC. I'm happy to setup other frequencies on request.
Please fill out https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?title=Request%20Phabricator%20Query%20Email&owner=RhinosF1&description=%7C%20query%20link%20%7C%20%0D%0A%7C%20frequency%20%7C%20&projects=User-RhinosF1%2CTools&subscribers=RhinosF1&priority=normal to request an email.