Re: connecting github to the email lists

David Shea <dshea@xxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 30 Jan 2015 07:58:22 -0500



    Another possibility is to use the
      web-service hook mechanism to send a HTTP request somewhere any
      time a pull request is created or commented on, and we could
      generate emails from that. The downsides are obvious: we would
      have to 1) host it, and 2) write it. Though maybe #2 isn't
      entirely true, since I have a hard time believing that we're the
      first ones to do something like this. Does anyone know of a github
      thing, web service or otherwise, to generate pull request emails?

      
      On 01/29/2015 03:17 PM, David Shea wrote:

    
      For commits: do what this
        page says. https://help.github.com/articles/receiving-email-notifications-for-pushes-to-a-repository/
        

        In the Approved header, put the list password, which will (in
        theory) tell mailman to approve the email. This may depend on
        the mailman configuration. 

        
        For patches/pull requests, I don't see a way to do it without a
        github account. We can create a github account with
        anaconda-patches set as the notification address, and on the
        mailing list side we need to accept messages from notifications@xxxxxxxxxx.
        Here are some things I found that will be annoying: 

        
        - github sets the reply-to address to something that will reply
        into the pull request thread, but it will use the original
        recipient as the message author. In other words, all replies to
        notifications sent to anaconda-patches will appear as being
        written by anaconda-patches, and since anaconda-patches is the
        sender these messages won't be forwarded back to the list. 

        
        - There is more than one way to comment on a commit or lines of
        a commit, and not all of them generate notifications. If, in the
        pull request, you go to the commits tab and comment on some
        stuff there, those comments are part of the repository being
        pulled from, not the main repo being watched, so no notification
        is sent. If you go to "Files changed" and comment on stuff
        there, notifications are sent. 

        
        - You can edit comments via the web interface. Edits do not
        create notification emails. 

        
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