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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Gitlab (commit) notifications
From:       Thomas Baumgart <thb () net-bembel ! de>
Date:       2020-05-21 11:50:02
Message-ID: 30594244.kS9ckXrHzr () thb-nb
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On Donnerstag, 21. Mai 2020 11:54:15 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote:

> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 9:43 PM Thomas Friedrichsmeier
> <thomas.friedrichsmeier@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> >
> > Am Thu, 21 May 2020 20:16:22 +1200
> > schrieb Ben Cooksley <bcooksley@kde.org>:
> > > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 12:20 AM Thomas Friedrichsmeier
> > > <thomas.friedrichsmeier@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > Is there any self-service way to receive commit/push notifications
> > > > via email from gitlab?
> > > >
> > > > If so, would such notifications include work-branches (that would be
> > > > useful, IMO)?
> > >
> > > Work branches cannot be notified on, as otherwise you end up
> > > renotifying all of the new commits in that work branch every time you
> > > force push.
> > > (It is impossible for hooks to tell if you are pushing a rewritten
> > > commit or a new one)
> >
> > Ok, I can live with that (I don't intend to make use of force-pushing,
> > anyway, and may just switch to a different prefix, where appropriate).
> >
> > However, I'd certainly welcome a feature to have commit notifications
> > on non-"work" branches (without merge requests). In RKWard we used to
> > have commit notifications going to a dedicated mailing list
> > (rkward-tracker) that also receives build failure notifications and
> > such, for a single point to subscribe to "all the noise" for the
> > project. IIRC, that notification mechanism was set up for us by
> > sysadmin, not by self-service.
> 
> For all non-work branches, emails will be sent to kde-commits@kde.org
> - so these already exist.
> What doesn't exist is a way to selectively subscribe to this list
> (that is, for a given project only)
> 
> Should someone be interested in building a commit filter type service,
> please get in touch.


Would it be feasible to use Mailman "topics" for that?


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Thomas Baumgart

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