Drop Activity integration [#1030950]

We have some issues that deal with Activity:

#738516: Can't create an activity for a flag of type user
#836524: Comment Tokens not working in Reactive Rules
#836438: Flag "like" provided by Facebook-style Statuses (Microblog) module available in Activity templates

What should we do with these issues? Also: Why should we do with these?

Wouldn't it be best if we drop the Activity integration? Then interested parties could start a new, maintained module for it.

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BTW, another threat looms on the horizon: #831390: Flag and context modules integration. On the one hand, these "integrations" are a nice thing; on the other hand, there's nobody here to support them and we the maintainers need to divert time into handling them instead of into Flag itself.

Comments

Comment #1

quicksketch

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CreditAttribution: quicksketch commented 18 January 2011 at 18:11

I'd agree that we should probably drop activity integration. Generally less-popular modules (Activity: 2000) need to support the more popular ones (Flag: 20,000).

Comment #2

mooffie CreditAttribution: mooffie commented 19 January 2011 at 09:32

I've notified Activity's developers of this: #1032298: Flag is likely to drop Activity support

Comment #3

Scott Reynolds CreditAttribution: Scott Reynolds commented 20 January 2011 at 15:40

This discussion for Activity in Drupal 7 has been for us, Activity module maintainers, to maintain the various integrations. So I am ok with this.

Comment #4

mooffie CreditAttribution: mooffie commented 21 January 2011 at 01:47

Scott: will you have the Flag integration in Drupal 6 as well?

Nate: I'll remove the Activity integration in a couple of days, unless you veto this.

(I also posted a message in "Flag Friend"'s issue queue, though I don't know if it's relevant there.)

Comment #5

quicksketch

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CreditAttribution: quicksketch commented 21 January 2011 at 04:15

Nate: I'll remove the Activity integration in a couple of days, unless you veto this.

Sounds good. Let's use the "we support more popular modules, less popular modules support us" mantra as a basic rule in the future (exceptions allowed when needed), so we can avoid flipping implementations in the future. Thanks mooffie!

Drop Activity integration?

» Drop Activity integration

Just want to point that you may also want to remove the specific mention on the project home page that Flag 2.x support "Activity 2 Integration", when this is finally done.

I posted our Activity integration in Activity's queue. I linked there from our homepage. If things go slow we'll remove the "flag supports activity" ad altogether.