SvnBot

A commit notification bot

SvnBot is intended to be a small, simple, ​IRC bot that sends out a message when a commit is made to a ​Subversion repository.

Other projects exist that cover similar functionality:

• The ​CIA Open Source Notification System tracks project activities and presents some statistics about projects. It has the ability to provide notification via an IRC bot.
• ​whippingboy is an IRC bot (thought to be a ​Supybot with an RSS plugin) that polls the timeline for projects using ​Trac, notifying on any new changes, including commits to the repository.

The main reasons for creating yet another bot were for its simplicity, and as a personal programming exercise.

Requirements

SvnBot is written in Python, and uses the Twisted API:

• Python (>=2.2), from ​http://python.org/
• Twisted 2, from ​http://twistedmatrix.com/

Downloading

There is no convenient package to download yet. Instead, make sure you have ​Subversion installed and grab the latest development version from the repository:

svn checkout http://svn.bleah.co.uk/repos/misc/svnbot/trunk svnbot

Configuration and Usage

There are no configuration files yet. Just edit svnbot.py to change the IRC server and channel, and run with:

twistd -oy svnbot.py

Modify svnbot-notify.py to connect to the SvnBot server URL, and run it from the Subversion post-commit hook. Something like:

REPOS="$1"
REV="$2"
AUTHOR=`/usr/bin/svnlook author -r $REV $REPOS`

$REPOS/hooks/svnbot-notify.py "$REV" "$AUTHOR"

Licence

Svnbot is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either version 2 or version 3 of the GNU General Public License as published by the ​Free Software Foundation and for support ​hotline number is given here .

Svnbot is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.