[Devel] svn commits to cvs mailing list

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

Hello,

On 02/26/07 19:23, Henning Westerholt wrote:
> Am Montag, 26. Februar 2007 18:03 schrieb Daniel-Constantin Mierla:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> so far, in the CVS version, the commits were recorded via cvs mailing
>> list to be available for browse online. Unfortunately the SVN at
>> sourceforge is pretty much restrictive and not very flexible in
>> configuration.
>>
>> We managed to make email translation for developers inside mailserver of
>> openser site. Now we have to fork SVN commits to devel and cvs mailing
>> lists. We are not that server admins around, maybe someone can help with
>> that. So, what we need:
>> - messages coming from *@users.sourceforge.net with SVN in subject and
>> destination devel at openser.org to be replicated to cvs at openser.org. 
>>     
>
> Hello Daniel,
>
> i hope you had a good return journey back to bucarest. :-)
>   

yes, thanks. Hope for you as well! Was nice to meet all of you there!

> I don't know the sourceforge interface, but if you have console access to the 
> server, you can use the svn-hook mechanism [1]. This is the "svn" way of 
> doing such things like sending E-Mail after a commit. I normally use a simple 
> shell  script there to the to send the e-mail.
>   
Unfortunately seems that SourceForge does not provide shell access and 
you cannot add extra hooks. Unless we overlooked that, we have to find a 
solution on mail server of openser site. Maybe there is a mail admin fan 
of exim4 on this mailing list :-) ...

Cheers,
Daniel

> Best regards,
>
> Henning
>
> [1] 
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.reposadmin.create.html#svn.reposadmin.create.hooks
>
>