[cvsnt] Re: commitinfo/loginfo scripts?

[Mike Wake]

Glen Starrett wrote:
> dzielke at aep.com wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to enable some type of a reporting system when someone 
>> commits a change into CVS.   I'd like to do a "daily summary" kind of 
>> report, something that would provide a list of files committed that 
>> day (or for a given time period) and either send an email or even 
>> update a web page that I can advertise daily to the developers.  
>> Sourceforge has some neat utilities, such as CVSNotify, CVS-Summary, 
>> CVSMail, etc.  I've actually downloaded CVSNotify but haven't got it 
>> working yet.
>>
>> What kind of stuff are you doing for your project? 
> 
> 
> I have cvsspam on my Linux (hobby) server and Bo's CVSMailer on our 
> production machine at work.
> 
> Neither support a daily digest, but I'd imagine you could combine any 
> mailer with mailman or similar to aggregate the contents.  You could 
> also do a script that runs at a specific time that uses rlog to check 
> for updates and send out the summary.
> 
> 
I use a hacked version of activitymail to make it behave with 
RepositoryXName.

I also use the database feature of ViewCVS to allow queries on commit 
activity.