[OSM-dev] Subversion commits mailing list

[Ray Booysen]

On 8/1/07, Keith Sharp <kms at passback.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 17:07 +0100, Andy Allan wrote:
> > On 7/29/07, Keith Sharp <kms at passback.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > Is there any reason for preferring RSS over an email list?  I'm a bit
> > > old-skool, and would prefer a mailing list.
> >
> > I'd guess it's just because it's part of trac, and nobody has done
> > anything else.
> >
> > You can use a webservice e.g. http://www.feedblitz.com/ to convert rss
> > updates to emails, if you like.
>
> The problem is that the Trac RSS feed doesn't provide very much context
> about the changeset.  This is a particular problem in OSM because it
> uses a single repository for all code and documents.  You have to click
> on the changeset link to see which file was changed, and a diff of the
> change.
>
> Can I ask one of the admins to setup a svn-commits mailing list and then
> drop the attached script into $REPO/hooks/.  You'll need to tweak the
> path to the commit-email.pl script depending on how and where Subversion
> is installed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Keith.



I'm also interested in this.
+1


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