bzr-hookless-email

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:51:54AM -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Wouter van Heyst wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > at work we run bzr-hookless-email on the central server, when changes
> > are available centrally the daemon notices this using inotify and sends
> > out new mail.
> > 
> > A drawback of running in daemon mode used to be that it didn't notice
> > newly created branches, but yesterday I added some code to pick up on
> > those and start watching them. (available from lp:bzr-hookless-email)
> > 
> > One issue I haven't decided on yet is what to mail for new branches,
> > just a mail "new branch available" with the log for -r -1, or the entire
> > log of the branch, or maybe look around in the repository for siblings
> > and mail about the "truely" new revisions?
> > 
> > Thoughts on this are welcome, as are suggestions for how to differently
> > solve the "mail-on-centrally-available" problem.
> > 
> > Wouter van Heyst
> > 
> > 
> 
> Not being a user, I can't give a definitive answer. That said, you may
> consider teaching the code about a "trunk" branch. And then when you
> push up a new branch, it gives you the:
>   bzr log -rancestor:../trunk..-1
> 
> That is sort of where Launchpad is going, with the "development focus"
> branch, which is the default branch used for stacking, etc.

Right, I'll think in that direction.

Wouter van Heyst