On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 11:50 PM Thomas Baumgart <t...@net-bembel.de> wrote: > > On Donnerstag, 21. Mai 2020 11:54:15 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote: > > > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 9:43 PM Thomas Friedrichsmeier > > <thomas.friedrichsme...@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote: > > > > > > Am Thu, 21 May 2020 20:16:22 +1200 > > > schrieb Ben Cooksley <bcooks...@kde.org>: > > > > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 12:20 AM Thomas Friedrichsmeier > > > > <thomas.friedrichsme...@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-comm...@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?
Potentially, but there would be limited success to using it that way as we would need to add a 'topic' for every repository - which isn't particularly sustainable, and is still very limited in the filtering capabilities on offer. Cheers, Ben > > > -- > > Regards > > Thomas Baumgart > > https://www.signal.org/ Signal, the better WhatsApp > ------------------------------------------------------------- > 'Good code is not created, it evolves.' > -- George Anzinger > -------------------------------------------------------------
