Email Hooks

[Russel Winder]

Nick,

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 11:36 +0200, Nicholas Allen wrote:

> > However, the thing I really want to do is to have the information
> > connected to the branch not to me.  So the question is where in the
> > .bzr (I assume it is in there) so I put the "hook" information?
> 
> If the branch is on a server accessed via ssh, for example, you could
> create a "devel" user on the server and put this in the
> ~devel/.bazaar/locations.conf file on the server. All developers would
> login to the server using the "devel" username for pushing/committing
> etc. I think the hooks would work with the smart server if accessed by
> "bzr+ssh" from client machines.

In the two cases I have just now, this idea probably works reasonably
well -- once I get some aliases into the Postfix tables to do the list
distribution.  Thanks for pointing this out -- I am though embarrassed
that I didn't think of it :-)

> Another alternative is to use the hookless email support for bazaar.
> This just monitors branches for changes without using a hook and then
> sends emails when it finds them. It can poll or use inotify to do
> this. https://launchpad.net/bzr-hookless-email

This sounds like a good sort of a plugin to try.  Does this have a
package in Ubuntu universe or multiverse?  If not then I guess I have to
find out how to load up a plugin that is then available globally.

Thanks.

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