2349: Enhance Repository settings for automatically request generating without commands in hook

gotisc******@yaho**** (Google Code) (Is this you? Claim this profile.)
Jan. 22, 2012
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http://reviews.reviewboard.org/


What version are you running?
1.6.1

What's the URL of the page this enhancement relates to, if any?
- Change repository (admin/db/scmtools/repository/1/)
- Add repository (admin/db/scmtools/repository/add/)

Describe the enhancement and the motivation for it.
when I "own" SVN repository I can add post-review command there and it costs me just few more seconds to commit my changes (I mean there is a time difference when I commit my changes with and without post-review command in hook). Now I am in situation when SVN is hosted by customer, I have no access to it except for committing my code. It's a bit problematic to use ReviewBoard for it. My solution for it was to write a java program which connects to SVN each 5 (actually configurable value) minutes and asks if there were any new commits, and then generates appropriate review requests (well, useing post-review command, I just don't now internal RB services to use them directly) for each of them automatically (just asking SVN for info needed, like who committed, description... ). This way I don't need access to SVN server, it does not make overhead for committing (time to commit is the same as without post-review command, logically). Delay in few minutes does not bother me (anyway it is post commit review). It is really easy to implement and make it an option for users: either to use post-review command in hook, or ReviewBoard will do the same on its own, just with delay.


What operating system are you using? What browser?
Windows

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#1 gotisc******@yaho**** (Google Code) (Is this you? Claim this profile.) 
sorry, my description is not enough... actually what I offer/want to see: on the page where I configure repository I would like to see few more options: 

1) check box to allow RB to connect to repository within some time to ask for new commits and generate review request for each revision automatically

2) input field to set frequency of RB/repository "synchronization". Probably in minutes (by default can be 10 minutes..)

then if checkbox is set, reviewbord connects to repository, asks for current revision and saves it in DB (say #1011). then in 10 minutes it connects to repository, asks for current revision (say #1015) and for each revision generates review requests (I mean for revisions #1012, #1013, #1014, #1015). now last revision is saved in Db (#1015), and thread falls asleep for next 10 minutes.
david
#2 david 
Looks like this request is one of our oldest feature requests.