Text file changes not summarized in activity notification e-mails

[kostecke]

Steps to reproduce

1. Open a file in the text editor
2. Make a change
3. Wait for an auto-save
4. Make a change
5. Wait for an auto-save
6. Repeat as desired ...
7. Receive an update notification e-mail containing a long list of closely spaced edits

Expected behaviour

One update notification per file for each editing session during a notification period similar to the summarized updates displayed in the file information pane.

Actual behaviour

One update notification for every auto-save triggered while a text file is edited. This can produce an update e-mail containing numerous edit notifications time stamped one minute apart.

This was an ongoing issue well before I reported it in https://github.com/nextcloud/text/issues/800 and has persisted across multiple upgrades. That issue report was closed and I was told to open an issue against nextcloud/activity.

Server configuration detail

Operating system: Linux 4.19.0-10-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.132-1 (2020-07-24) x86_64

Webserver: Apache (fpm-fcgi)

Database: mysql 10.3.23

PHP version:

7.3.19-1~deb10u1 Modules loaded: Core, date, libxml, openssl, pcre, zlib, filter, hash, Reflection, SPL, session, sodium, standard, cgi-fcgi, mysqlnd, PDO, xml, apcu, calendar, ctype, curl, dom, mbstring, fileinfo, ftp, gd, gettext, iconv, imagick, intl, json, exif, mysqli, pdo_mysql, apc, posix, readline, shmop, SimpleXML, sockets, sysvmsg, sysvsem, sysvshm, tokenizer, wddx, xmlreader, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, Phar, Zend OPcache

Nextcloud version: 18.0.9 - 18.0.9.1

Updated from an older Nextcloud/ownCloud or fresh install: Updated from an older Nextcloud using builtin updater

Where did you install Nextcloud from: nextcloud website

Signing status

Array ( )

List of activated apps

Enabled:
 - activity: 2.11.0
 - admin_audit: 1.8.0
 - cloud_federation_api: 1.1.0
 - comments: 1.8.0
 - dav: 1.14.0
 - federatedfilesharing: 1.8.0
 - federation: 1.8.0
 - files: 1.13.1
 - files_external: 1.9.0
 - files_pdfviewer: 1.7.0
 - files_readmemd: 1.1.4
 - files_rightclick: 0.15.2
 - files_sharing: 1.10.1
 - files_texteditor: 2.11.0
 - files_trashbin: 1.8.0
 - files_versions: 1.11.0
 - firstrunwizard: 2.7.0
 - impersonate: 1.5.2
 - issuetemplate: 0.7.0
 - logreader: 2.3.0
 - lookup_server_connector: 1.6.0
 - nextcloud_announcements: 1.7.0
 - notifications: 2.6.0
 - oauth2: 1.6.0
 - password_policy: 1.8.0
 - photos: 1.0.0
 - privacy: 1.2.0
 - provisioning_api: 1.8.0
 - recommendations: 0.6.0
 - serverinfo: 1.8.0
 - settings: 1.0.0
 - sharebymail: 1.8.0
 - survey_client: 1.6.0
 - systemtags: 1.8.0
 - text: 2.0.0
 - theming: 1.9.0
 - twofactor_backupcodes: 1.7.0
 - updatenotification: 1.8.0
 - user_usage_report: 1.2.3
 - viewer: 1.2.0
 - workflowengine: 2.0.0
Disabled:
 - accessibility
 - calendar
 - encryption
 - files_markdown
 - files_videoplayer
 - mail
 - socialsharing_email
 - support
 - user_ldap

Configuration (config/config.php)

{
    "updatechecker": false,
    "instanceid": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "trusted_domains": [
        "cloud.rrra.org"
    ],
    "datadirectory": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "overwrite.cli.url": "http:\/\/cloud.rrra.org",
    "dbtype": "mysql",
    "version": "18.0.9.1",
    "dbname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "dbhost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "dbtableprefix": "oc_",
    "dbuser": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "dbpassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "logtimezone": "CDT",
    "installed": true,
    "loglevel": 2,
    "theme": "",
    "mail_from_address": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "mail_smtpmode": "smtp",
    "mail_domain": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "mail_smtphost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "mail_smtpport": "25",
    "memcache.local": "\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu",
    "maintenance": false,
    "data-fingerprint": "b0dfb2d05315edfc9c8add1fcd08327a",
    "mysql.utf8mb4": true,
    "updater.secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***"
}

Are you using external storage, if yes which one: n/a

Are you using encryption:

Are you using an external user-backend, if yes which one: n/a

Client configuration

Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Operating system: Devuan 3.0

Logs

Web server error log

n/a

Nextcloud log

n/a

Browser log

n/a

[kostecke]

Here's a sample notification e-mail:

chatty-activity-mail.txt

[kostecke]

I just upgraded our Nextcloud instance to 20.0.4 and observed that this issue is still present.

[parfumdaventure]

I have the same problem in nextcloud 25.0.13, not corrected...

[nickvergessen]

I have the same problem in nextcloud 25.0.13

25 is not supported anymore at this point.

[parfumdaventure]

I have the same problem in nextcloud 25.0.13

25 is not supported anymore at this point.

So this is corrected in newer version ?

[kostecke]

No, it is still present. Here is a sample from 2024-01-26:

Notification after a single editing session

Nextcloud: 27.1.6 Text: 3.8.0

Thanks!