Email notifications for git commits on git.debian.org

Reinhard Tartler siretart at gmail.com
Mon Feb 3 15:06:03 UTC 2014


On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I've noticed the following note in the latest developer news regarding
>> our commit messages. I know that we have been using our own custom
>> post-receive-email hook, and I wonder if now wouldn't be a good time
>> to switch to this multimailhook script?
>>
>> While we are at it, it seems that this multimail hook makes it easy to
>> also send VCS notices to KGB (i.e., IRC announcements) and to the PTS.
>> I'd like to enable all of them, but first wanted to check with you
>> what to look out for. I've again forgot what exact problems our
>> post-commit hook fixed.
>
> I remember I changed the commit script to set the alioth username of
> the pusher in the From line, which I believe is then used to
> automoderate the commit list.

I strongly believe that there we can whitelist the sending hosts as
well on the -commits mailing list. If you don't mind, I'd like to
test-switch one package to multimailhook, and see if the mails get
moderated. If yes, then I'll adjust the sender filters to auto-accept
them.

sounds good?

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard



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