Beanstalk

What about receiving our own commit emails?

I used to store them in my Outlook, and I also like to see my work done :)

I'd like the Activity Overview page to refresh periodically, perhaps with a lightweight poller to determine if any changes have been committed to the repository and a full-page refresh when its happened.

There is a high level of overlap in beanstalk (bs), basecamp (bc) and lighthouse (lh). Specifically projects (bs, bc, lh), users (bs, bc, lh), and milestones (bc, lh).

It would be fantastic to sync the projects from basecamp to beanstalk and to lighthouse, and do the same for milestones. This would also go for users. So, considering that basecamp would be the center of operations (used by project managers) we could do the following:
1) Create a new project in basecamp. Go to beanstalk and flag that project to be "synced". This would auto-create the repository and auto-create a lighthouse project. It would also auto-create all of the appropriate user accounts.

2) Sync users between Basecamp and beanstalk and lighthouse. If I manage users in lighthouse, it should manage users in beanstalk and lighthouse.

3) Sync Milestones between Basecamp and Lighthouse.

I realize that basecamp has a weaker API that does not allow for many things to be remotely created. However, it does allow most things to be exported. And lighthouse does a great job with their API allowing you to do nearly anything remotely.

The only draw-back is that there is no way to attach events to basecamp so that when a new milestone, project, user is created that beanstalk can know about it and act accordingly.

It's conventional style in a lot of projects to provide a summary of the commit as the first line of the commit message, and then follow it with a blank line and a more detailed description of the changes. This way, you can have long, detailed commit messages without having a giant chunk of text show up in the repo browser. Show only the first line in the repo browser, and then show the rest of the commit message when viewing the actual changeset.

Commit emails don't look as nice as svnnotify... We prefer our old svnnotify with -handler HTML:ColorDiff!

The subject of the mails contains also more information with svnnotify...

We have integrated our account with Lighthouse and are always a little thrown off that beanstalk changes over to the next day several hours before our lighthouse account does.

I'm guessing that you are using GMT as the server time. If we could set the timezone for our account it would be very helpful.

There is a well known rails plugin to handle this - http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugin...

-dave