Idea: Notifications for Announcements

Question

We have recently shipped the Announcements feature: Feature Preview: Announcements

Currently you need to view your components to see their incoming Announcements. We are exploring ways of introducing notifications, either via Email, in-product notifications, or Slack, to ensure that you don't miss an important announcement when you are outside of Compass.

Would you find this useful, and what would be your preferred mechanism for receiving these notifications?

Steffen Opel [Utoolity] · Answer

Developer side question: Is there a way to get a badge into the left navigation tab title of a regular Compass component page, similar to the cool unacknowledged announcements badge, or is this an internal capability that's not yet usable from Forge modules?

Steffen Opel [Utoolity] · Answer

@David Harper has already covered most aspects, I'd just like to rephrase it slightly and then add one more option:

* As a user, I'd expect some kind of announcement overview in-product so that I can view all pending announcements at a glance - this could be a global page or maybe an additional column in the various component list/table views (would still require checking all component types though).
* As a developer, I'd expect an API/SPI for announcements so that I can a) notify whatever external channels my team prefers and b) have in-product quick actions like 'Create issue' - this could be built-in RSS/webhook capabilities for platform independent extensibility and/or dedicated Forge modules (which would enable the former for those who need it).

With respect to the need for 1, I've been contemplating to handle announcements as 'just another metric' so that 'Unacknowledged announcements' would surface as a scorecard in the components view, but maybe that's stretching the abstraction/semantics a bit?

Mac White_4p3oe2 · Answer

Could the announcement be broadcast to the channels defined in the dependencies graph? Meaning if component A is dependent on component B, then an announcement for B is sent to any configured chat channels in component A.