Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch on Savannah

[Michael J. Flickinger]

On Saturday 10 December 2005 11:21 am, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> On 10 Dec 2005 08:18:03 +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> > Great! Just one thing, I tried to get the script / setup that does the
> > email notification, but couldn't find it. Would you be so kind as to
> > share that?  Thanks in advance. I'm very curious how you do that.
>
> It is really nice that Savannah will have an automatic email notification
> for the arch-hosted projects (this is done by patching sshd, it seems).
This is actually done by putting a hook in sftp-server.c

This works by using simple regex on the process_rename function, which checks 
for a patch/base in newpath.

When this happens, another program is executed which sends out the email.

This feature should be seen as experimental.

>
> However, if one has a shell somewhere with tla binary, he does not
> really need to depend on this. It is possible to setup tracking of any
> registered archive (or individual branches) with your own notification
> action per branch. All flexibility in a few commands, as demonstrated in:
>
True, but it's also nifty to have commit notifications automatically done.

>   http://migo.sixbit.org/software/axp/examples/triggers/
>
> Regards,
> Mikhael.

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Michael J. Flickinger