Hey all, I've been making some changes in the ASF's "svnpubsub" infra project over the past couple days. The basic concept is a hub that accepts notifications from post-commit hooks, and then sends out notifications to N subscribers (maintaining open connections to the hub). The subscribers can then do $whatever when the commit occurs. Daniel made a good observation: distributed commit hooks.
The pubsub stuff has become pretty critical to the operation of the ASF, and I was thinking that others may find it just as useful. The "svnwcsub.py" client will watch for commit notifications and keep working copies in sync with the repository. There are other possibilities, but this wc-syncing seems very useful. The ASF uses it to manage/sync its web sites. There is another client script for sending out tweets on each commit. I'm in the process for simplifying this work, and making it more robust. The ASF-internal project is located at: https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/projects/svnpubsub/ I'm thinking of moving this into ^/trunk/tools/server-side/. This would mean broader use, and possibly some new involvement besides myself and Joe(*). Moving it out of Infra gives it a better chance of more open growth/management. Any thoughts or concerns? Cheers, -g (*) we'd also want to grant Joe partial commit to that directory. he's been the point man for its ASF deployment and has been making it Work.
