RE: Re: Email postcommit hook, subscription, properties ....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Micah Elliott [mailto:mde@micahelliott.com]
> On 2007-11-02 Harvey, Edward wrote:
>
> > The users wish to have email alerts when somebody changes a file of
> > interest. So I'm trying to provide something like "watch
> this item"
> > ... It is natural to look at post commit hooks, but it is not
> > appropriate for every user to get email about every change.
> It would
> > simply be too much.
>
> It's a Best Practice to have a "commits" mailing list. (See
> Karl's new book, Producing Open Source Software
> (http://producingoss.com/) for details.)
>
> I like Mailman (http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html)
> quite a bit for hosting my commits lists. I haven't set up
> the topical granularity you've mentioned but it should be
> possible without much tweaking: Mailman provides "topics"
> which let you specify a regex pattern for email subjects.
>
> So you should be able to set up svnnotify
> (http://search.cpan.org/dist/SVN-Notify/) in a hook to put
> the path of the change into the subject. Then you would have
> a topic regex that would capture each top level directory.
> Your users would be "subscribed" only to the topics
> (directories) that really interest them.
>

Alternatively, if you're already in a Windows/C# environment like I am,
you can build C# console applications designed for your pre/post commit
hooks. This gives you all the capabilities of .NET. I would then
define configuration entries to define the paths and mailing lists. When
you want to change rules, just change the configuration.

--
David
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