Last evening David Faure and me made some changes to the post commit hook. Normally commits can be followed via the kde-commits mailinglist. After our change it will also sent a mail to the committer if there is a problem with a commit.

As the project gets more contributors and more commits, the percentage of committers which are subscribed to the kde-commits mailinglist will decrease. No, I’m not the one who have done actual research into that, i’ll leave that to the experts, I just like random guesses. Anyhow, we felt that committers were more and more unaware of problems with their commits. I think someone (was it Cornelius?) pointed me to that issue at the last pim-meeting.

So, whenever you commit a file without a license, with an unknown license, with security issues, utf-problems or some syntax error, you will get a cc of your commit. Just make sure your e-mail address is up-to-date in kde-common/accounts. Also, it can lead to some duplicate messages if you are also subscribed to the commits via commitfilter.kde.org. Not much we can do about that.

I hope it’s another little improvement for people, so that they aware of a problem in their commit and that way improve overall quality of the files in svn.