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Central notification system for privacyIDEA news
When a new update comes, this update also contains a "READ_BEFORE_UPDATE" file. However, the admin running privacyIDEA with Ubuntu or CentOS packages will not be easily able to read this file, since he does not visit github on a regular basis.
So the interesting thing would be, to send him additional information: about the upcoming update. This is somehow related to #614
But in this case there could be a central place (github repository, privacyidea download page), that a privacyIDEA system could regularily fetch.
There could be news with different attributes:
- ID
- PI version greater than
- PI version smaller than
- PI version list (only these specific PI versions show this information)
- Scope (like updateinfo, news, invitation)
- Severity (like Warning, Info)
- text
- in english
- in german
- in whatever
- audience (admin, user)
This would be fetched by privacyIDEA and then be presented to the admin in the webui.
THis way we could inform the admin: "Hey, there will be an update to version 3.0 shortly. It is important to run a DB backup before updating!" or "Hey, you are running privacyIDEA < 2.23.2. Please update to at least version 2.23.2."
The text could be HTML so that we could add links to further information.
A github repo could be used to have the master branch be the actual branch and notifications could be prepared in pull requests.
This is just some kind of RSS reader. We could add news fetching modules and be able to subscribe to different channels like.
Modules could be:
- RSS feeds
- twitter feeds
- read yaml files from URL (like a github repo)
- ...
Admin can subscribe to multiple channels - the default channel would be our update channel.
How about a channel for internal (instance) news from admin to user/helpdesk (i.e. "policy xy has changed...")
This could be nicely implemented if we had a dashboard, so this issue depends on #951
