Thanks for the tip... although I'm curious now what security is applied to the RSS feed. Can anyone view it, or can it be locked down? Which 'user' controls access to it (i assume 'anonymous'?).
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Matt Welland <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Jeremy Anderson <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Something my team finds useful at work is a way to send "checkin mail" - >> an automated email that is fired off by our old SCM (or a companion >> process) to a specific email list address (which users can sub/unsub from >> to opt in/out) which describes the change (including the changelist number, >> the comments, and the files modified). >> >> Does fossil have anything like this that can be configured on one of the >> instances (e.g, in our topology, we have a single fossil "server" which >> runs Fossil as a service. everyone clones their individual developer repo's >> from it and syncs to it. this central Fossil instance would be the ideal >> entity to monitor changes from and to send email as a result). >> > > An alternative possibility for your consideration.... > > We thought we needed the same thing for our team, email notification on > various events such as commit. Then we took a look at the rss capability of > fossil and quickly realized that the rss feed is far superior to triggered > emails. Same data, same granularity, much better management of the > information, zero setup cost, zero maintenance of scripts etc. > > If your repo is at http://host.dom/fossils/myfossil then add > http://host.dom/fossils/myfossil/timeline.rss to your rss reader (we are > using outlook which seems to work fine). > > >> >> Thanks! >> >> -jer >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fossil-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > >
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