Server side hooks.

[Nicholas Allen]

bzr-email-notifier just scans a directory full of Bazaar branches and
sends any emails for new revisions found in them. The branches have to
be local on the server that bzr-email-notifier is running. However, you
can always branch from a remote location if you want to monitor a remote
branch. If the pull option is turned on in the config file then
bzr-email-notifier will first pull from the parent branch for each branch.

Nick

Eric Berry wrote:
> Hi Robert, and Nick.
>    Thank you both for the replies. It sounds like this is what I want,
> but could you please send me some more information on how to do this
> exactly?
>
> Robert, from my understanding I would need to install the email plugin
> on the server into the $HOME/.bazaar/plugins directory. However, I am
> not the only user who makes use of the repository, and each of us has
> a different user, so I would need to install this into each user's
> directory correct?
>
> It's a managed hosting environment and I can't install it into the
> bazaar installation dir.
>
> Nick, can you explain a little bit about how the email-notifier works.
> I was looking through the example.conf file and it looks like it
> creates a local working copy for the branches it's watching? Is this
> correct?
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Nicholas Allen
> <nick.allen at onlinehome.de <mailto:nick.allen at onlinehome.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Eric,
>
>     You don't have to use bzr-email-notifier from a cron job. There is a
>     shell script that checks for updates every 10 seconds. This means it
>     should notify you within a max of 10 seconds of a commit. There is no
>     need to execute it from a hook. On my system polling every 10 seconds
>     does not increase CPU usage in a noticable way so you could even lower
>     the poll interval if you like.
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Nick
>
>     Eric Berry wrote:
>     > Hi, Thanks for the pointers.
>     >
>     > I looked into both of those, but my issue is that my server
>     > environment doesn't have cron services. To use these plugins I would
>     > need to set up some php script to execute these commands, and
>     then set
>     > up a cron job on another machine to hit the php script.
>     >
>     > Is there any way to get these plugins to execute automatically
>     (event
>     > based) after someone has pushed changes to the server?
>     >
>     > How does launchpad do it? Is launchpad using one of these
>     plugins and
>     > has a cron job running in the background checking for changes?
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > Eric
>     >
>     > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Nicholas Allen
>     > <nick.allen at onlinehome.de <mailto:nick.allen at onlinehome.de>
>     <mailto:nick.allen at onlinehome.de
>     <mailto:nick.allen at onlinehome.de>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     You can also check out bzr-email-notifier
>     >     https://launchpad.net/bzr-email-notifier.
>     >
>     >     Nick
>     >
>     >     Eric Berry wrote:
>     >     > Hello,
>     >     >    I've been looking through the documentation on hooks:
>     >     > http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/BzrHooks
>     >     > and
>     >     >
>     >    
>     http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/bzr.dev/en/admin-guide/hooks-plugins.html
>     >     >
>     >     > It doesn't look like there are many "easy" ways to set up
>     email
>     >     > notifications from the server. Is this correct, is the current
>     >     > recommended way to have each developer install and
>     configure the
>     >     > bzr-email plugin?
>     >     >
>     >     > Thanks for any help,
>     >     > Eric
>     >     >
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