Opened 18 years ago
Closed 18 years ago
#3791 closed enhancement (wontfix)
Notify about commits when author changes
| Reported by: | Owned by: | Jonas Borgström | |
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| Priority: | lowest | Milestone: | |
| Component: | general | Version: | |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description
Although this sounds convoluted, here's an idea. In a large project, I like to look at changes to the files that I have touched before, to make sure that fresh code is not "broken" (testing is a better poison here but what if they also changed the unit tests?) or to see which new direction is a given component taking since I last remember it. It's too volatile to subscribe myself to RSS log feeds for every file I change.
What I propose here is a tiny feature: RSS feed that notifies deveoper1 when some other developer2 committed r123 over developer1's r122. In effect, it's authorship-change feed. Projects in initial stages will not benefit from it because people jump between modules often and fix whatever needs fixing. But in more stable ongoing projects people don't switch between components too often and such a feed would provide valuable information.
Although I can imagine the interest, I don't see how that could be implemented realistically.
It's always possible to subscribe to several revision log RSS feeds of interest, and be notified when something changes there. An idea is to be able to associate components to paths, so maybe when that's implemented, this could simplify the subscription mechanism.