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Issue 697: Provide a way to get email notification of *all* changes (including pushes) to the repo
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Status:  Duplicate
Merged:  issue 118
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Closed:  Sep 2010


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Reported by d...@google.com, Aug 31, 2010
Currently, the "watched projects" feature in gerrit applies only to
changes submitted thru the gerrit review process.

That means that the repo can change *without* generating email to the
watchers.  For example, say I use the internal gerrit instance
(android-git.corp) and watch some projects there.  If a change is reviewed
in the AOSP gerrit and then pushed to android-git, no email is generated.

This missing bit of "watched projects" coverage can be really bad if you
rely on those email messages as part of your workflow(*).

So could there be a way to get email for ANY change that affects the repo
(regardless of whether it was a regular change / merge / push), similar to
how the p4 user "Reviews:" section works in perforce?



(*) One workflow example: it's really nice being able to search email to
    find "recent changes" that might be causing a bug.

    Today there was a keymap problem that totally broke the device, so I
    searched email for "keymap" and "kcm" to see if anything had changed
    recently.

    I found no keymap-related changes in email since last month, but it
    turned out the problem *was* caused by kcm files after all.  It was
    broken yesterday by https://review.source.android.com//#change,16880 ,
    which was reviewed on RSAC and later pushed to android-git, so I never
    got email about it :-(


Sep 1, 2010
#1 sop@google.com
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