Bugzilla related little project and e-mail notification

[David Miller]

Julien BETI wrote on 1/10/06 6:01 PM:

> I have a little question to improve my project. After updating the
> Bugzilla database with new deadlines, I'm calling the sanitycheck,
> section rescan unsend mail, in order to make Bugzilla sends the e-mails
> notifying the changes. But in your script, there is a delay in order to
> not send e-mails if the change is more recent than 30 minutes ago. Since
> I'd like to propose a patch to add a parameter to define this delay (and
> set it to 0 in my case :p), and in order to avoid regressions, I'd like
> to know why this delay has been introduced? Your answer will be also
> useful for the CruiseControl BugzillaPublisher plugin (developed by
> Nanthrax: http://buildprocess.sourceforge.net/bugzillapublisher.html)
> where I'd like to porpose a patch to add the "e-mail notification" also.

There's a "sendbugmail.pl" script which probably is a better match for
what you're looking for.  It takes the bug number on the command line,
and sends any unsent mail for that specific bug.  Assuming you know
which bugs you're changing that would probably be a safer route to go.

Also, there is a "sendunsentbugmail.pl" script (in contrib I think)
which does exactly what the sanitycheck process does, but doesn't have
the overhead of running everything else in sanitycheck as well (and also
does it from the command line).  That script should be pretty easy to
modify to remove the 30 minute exception if you really need to run it
across the board instead of on specific bugs.

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