[p4] Changelist diff notifications

[Stephen Vance]

The reviews functionality is the best way to do it. If you don't want 
users to have to manage it themselves, spend your time writing a tool to 
manage it the way you want. Automating that kind of thing is relatively 
easy.

Steve

Marc Wensauer wrote:
> I would like to implement functionality whereby a summary of a
> changelist (including the files affected and the related diffs) is
> generated and then sent to a group email address.
>
> Typically, a number of developers belong to a group, and they have an
> interest in a codeline and/or subset of the codeline's branches.  Their
> group (in Active Directory) has an email address, and the changelist
> diff report would be sent to that group email address.
>
> So how can I accomplish this in Perforce?  Here are some of my ideas:
>
> -Use the 'reviews' daemon, and have users individually add entries to
> the Reviews: section for the areas of the depot that interest them.  I
> don't like this very much, for it means that every user has to do this.
>
> -Write a change-commit trigger to generate the report, but maintain a
> list of what groups care about what depot paths separately.
>
> -Somehow overload the group form to support an email and a reviews
> field, and modify the reviews daemon (if possible) to allow groups to
> receive changelist notifications.
>
> Thoughts?  I'd appreciate any advice.  Thanks,
> -Marc
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