On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Some time ago, we were thinking of maintaining some > notification-configuration inside versioned properties on directories > in svn. The idea was simply to be able to put a (comma-separated, or > new-line separated or whatever) list of email addresses in some > property (let's call it "watchers") on directories. In the simple > case, just the top level directories actually. Post-commit hook would > then see which top-level directories were affected, and use those > email addresses to send commit mails. This then avoids the need to > setup and maintain mailinglists ... It might be possible to come up > with a more elaborate system to put more configuration in such > properties (like people watching only certain authors on certain > directories/files etc). > > I didn't really think it through (there could be some nasty details, > performance issues in crawling up the directory structure, ...), > because we decided not to implement it. In the end, we decided it > would be much easier to just setup some mailinglists, for the simple > stuff we needed... > > Just my .02 € > > Johan > A while ago, I wrote something on top of SVN::Notify with a similar feature, of having a property define who got an email. I threw it up on CPAN at http://search.cpan.org/~larrysh/SVN-Notify-Filter-Watchers-0.09/ It worked pretty good. I have since moved jobs, and we use FishEye, which has a way to setup notifications, and use that instead. So if it has any problems, send me a patch, and I will apply it. -- Larry
