[Geotools-devel] commit notifications for github

[Justin D. <jde...@op...>]

Hi all,

In preparation for the git switch i have been looking at how
commit notifications will work. There seems to be a post commit hook
available that will send email to a mailing list of choice. Looks promising.

I have been looking at how to try and integrate this with our existing
commit mailing list I don;t seem to have any access to that mailing list
and i am not sure how it is configured with respect to svn. So I propose
setting up a separate email list (a google group) for the switch. Any
objections?

For now I have set up a google group here:

  https://groups.google.com/group/geotools-commits/

The idea is that committers will sign up to this list in order to both send
emails to the list (via github) and receive notifications of commits. One
of the nice features of the github service hook is the ability to send the
email from the original commit author. Which is a nice feature that we
currently don't have with our svn list. For this to work properly you will
have to sign up with the same email address that your git client is
configured with.

Those committers who aren't interested in receiving email notification
don't have to sign up. But the emails sent from github will have to be
whitelisted by the group moderators.

Let me know that you think.

-Justin

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Justin Deoliveira
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Enterprise support for open source geospatial.