On 09/12/2014 02:28 PM, James Salsman wrote:
How many estimated days of developer work is the "major can of worms" of delivering thank notifications only, in a new way, to IPs? As cans of worms go, I'm pretty sure it would not be on the major end of the scale, if an experienced developer actually quantified it.
I doubt we would make a whole new backend just for anon recipients of Thanks. That leaves only two possibilities:
* Have Echo support anonymous recipients (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56828). Apparently Wikihow has code for this, and there is a WIP patch, but Wikihow doesn't have the exact same infrastructure as us. * Use an existing backend, probably user talk pages (or maybe Flow user talk pages, assuming anon talk pages are eventually converted over to this)
Matt Flaschen