Re: Feature idea: user-configurable post-commit notifications

On 23.04.2010 13:00, Greg Stein wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 06:53, Stefan Küng<tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 23.04.2010 00:06, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>>>
>>> With the increased integration of build tools and other notification
>>> systems
>>> which desire knowledge of commit activity, it would be useful to provide
>>> an
>>> easier mechanism of installing post-commit notification, without having to
>>> use the hook infrastructure. Imagine a user being able to set up commit
>>> mails, CIA notifications, and buildbot notifications *without* having to
>>> have access to the repository. To that end, I propose the following.
>>>
>>> Simply a versioned property, which, when encountered during the course of
>>> a
>>> commit, causes the server to emit a notification. This property would be
>>> a
>>> list of URLs, to which the repository would send a specially formatted
>>> POST
>>> with the information about the commit. (The idea being that a committer
>>> to
>>> the project could set up this property, as well as the server which
>>> receives
>>> these notifications, all without the intervention of the repository
>>> administrator.) As part of the bubble up, the repo would queue these
>>> URLs,
>>> and then POST to them during the post-commit phase of the commit.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> We have something similar in TortoiseSVN: client-side hook scripts.
>> Some people use those to send out notifications after a commit, some to copy
>> files to their webserver, ...
>> http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-settings.html#tsvn-dug-settings-hooks
>>
>> But TortoiseSVN gathers all information purely on the client side. So I'm
>> not sure if this feature in svn would require a server-side change or hook
>> script to do that?
>
> If the committers use various clients, then yes: some kind of
> server-side solution would be needed.

Sorry, I misread the proposal and thought the data the server gathers
would be sent back to the client and the client would then do whatever
it wants.

After re-reading the proposal: doesn't Google Code already have
something like this implemented?
http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/PostCommitWebHooks

Stefan

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