Server side hooks.

[Nicholas Allen]

There is no need for the trees in order to get emails so that works - in
fact it's the setup I use myself...

Nick

Eric Berry wrote:
> So does this mean it won't work with a server repo set up using
> --no-trees?
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Nicholas Allen
> <nick.allen at onlinehome.de <mailto:nick.allen at onlinehome.de>> wrote:
>
>     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>
>     <mailto: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>>
>     >     <mailto: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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