New Feature: Web Hooks for Notes
Created by: sroth80021
There are a few areas which are code-review related in which Gitolite could be integrated with another system, if it has a web hook.
For example, when a 'code review' is launched, the set of people participating may be different than the set of people on the 'team'. This is actually quite common in our company, because the set of people who need to be able to fetch/build our code is quite different than the set of people that are actually maintaining the code. For our company, the 'repo team' concept is too wide to use for code review, since most of the people on the 'repo team' do not care about code reviews. Something like https://github.com/supermatter/reviewthis might be just the thing, to notify the proper set of people for a given commit or merge req.
However, when one goes to comment on a particular file, commit, or merge req, there is currently no way AFAIK to extend this mechanism, for example, to notify others which are currently participating in the review, of the new comment. For us, the 'team' concept is too spammy.
If GitLab supports web hooks for notes, then this type of extension is possible. I see this as a short to medium-term approach.
FWIW, in the long-term, I would love to see the concept of a 'per-commit or per-mergereq review team' in GitLab itself, which would meet our needs in a cleaner way.