Re: svn.gnome.org commit notification hooks and Git

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Owen Taylor wrote:

> I'm trying to sort out notification hooks for svn.gnome.org prior to the
> migration to git. If you are receiving the mail, I think you might knows
> something about one of the existing mail hooks. Please read this or your
> website update may stop working.
>
> My proposal
> ============
[...]

Sounds very good to me. Thanks for looking into this at that level
of detail Owen.

> gtk-web
> 	echo $REPOS $REV | mail -s "gtk-web commit <secret key>" timj gtk org
>
>  I think it's really up to the recipient to script things so that someone can't
>  create a horrible DOS by sending malicious mails. (Simply causing a continual
>  rebuild doesn't sound very fun.) If needed, though, we can just configure
>  timj+<secret_key>@gtk.org as the recipient. ("secret" ... the git configuration
>  won't be protected by any strong measures, though it should be moderately
>  hard to get to.)

I'd prefer a "secret" in the Header, Subject or Body, so it's just a
matter of adding a secret matching line to procmail rules, rather than
having to configure additional email aliases (which might not be easy
for systems where users don't have admin rights or generally quick
admin task handling).

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ciaoTJ