<div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/11 Chani <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chanika@gmail.com">chanika@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">because svn doesn't email you every project's merge requests (since it doesn't</div>
*have* merge requests, but that's besides the point).<br>
imagine if suddenly reviewboard started sending all the mail it currently<br>
sends to mailing lists and directly-involved people to every person who has an<br>
svn account.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi all,</div><div>I work with Johan on Gitorious - here's a short note on what we're currently working on with the merge requests and notifications in Gitorious.</div>
<div><br></div><div>First of all, reviewers will no longer receive an email when new merge requests arrive. Instead, we're introducing support for watching objects on Gitorious: repositories and merge requests will be the first "watchable" objects. Once you watch an object, it will appear in your newsfeed (available from your profile page on Gitorious.org) and in a new Atom feed we'll be introducing for every Gitorious user. </div>
<div><br></div><div>For instance, I (~zmalltalker) will have two Atom feeds: the one I have today (which shows the actions I have done on Gitorious) and a newsfeed that covers activities in objects I watch on Gitorious. So if I watch a merge request, my newsfeed will contain all updates on this merge request, easily available both on <a href="http://gitorious.org/~zmalltalker">gitorious.org/~zmalltalker</a> and in my Atom newsfeed. As soon as I "un-watch" an object, new activities for this object will no longer appear in my newsfeed.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Further, once a merge request is created, reviewers of the repository will have this merge request added to their newsfeed. So: no email "spamming" of reviewers. </div><div><br></div><div>- Marius </div>
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