[p4] Changelist diff notifications

[Melissa Kacher]

Getting more specific with your option #2:

-Write a generic change-commit trigger to generate the report, taking a 
changelist and group e-mail address as parameters. For each depot path that 
some group cares about, make an entry in the trigger table calling your 
generic trigger script, passing in the change list number and the group's 
e-mail address as parameters.

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Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:15:19 -0700
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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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