Don't send an email for "mentioned in" notes
Currently, an email is sent every time a mentionable is referenced by an issue, a commit or a merge request: if I comment "This MR is related to #5", the watchers get one email for the comment, and another one stating "Issue #5 was mentioned by issue #13".
This is annoying — but the biggest issue is when pushing an existing branch. Every issue referenced by commit messages in this branch will get a new mention (which is fine), and dozens of emails will be sent for all these new mentions (which is not).
This commit fixes the spam by avoiding to send an email when a new mention is added to an existing mentionable. In most cases the email notification sent by the mentioner is enough.
The 'author_id_of_changes' attribute is not persisted in the database.
As we retrieve the merge request from the DB just before sending the
email, this attribute was always nil.
Also there was no tests for the merge notification code - tests have
been added.
Fix#6605
Currently, an email is sent every time a mentionable is referenced
by an issue, a commit or a merge request: if I comment "This MR is
related to #5", watchers get one email for the comment, and another
one stating "Issue #5 was mentioned by issue #13".
This is annoying — but the biggest issue is when pushing an existing
branch. Every issue referenced by commit messages in this branch will
get a new mention (which is fine), and dozens of emails will be sent
for all these new mentions (which is not).
This commit fixes the spam by avoiding to send an email when a new
mention is created. In most cases the email notification for the
mentioner is enough.
This changes the email "From" field from "gitlab@example.com" to either:
* "John Doe <gitlab@example.com>" if the author of the action is known,
* "GitLab <gitlab@example.com>" otherwise.
Rationale: this allow mails to appear as if they were sent by the
author. It appears in the mailbox more like a real discussion between
the sender and the receiver ("John sent: we should refactor this") and
less like a robot notifying about something.
Emails are used to associate commits with users. The emails
are not verified and don't have to be valid email addresses. They
are assigned on a first come, first serve basis.
Notifications are sent when an email is added.
The good:
- You can do a merge request for a forked commit and it will merge properly (i.e. it does work).
- Push events take into account merge requests on forked projects
- Tests around merge_actions now present, spinach, and other rspec tests
- Satellites now clean themselves up rather then recreate
The questionable:
- Events only know about target projects
- Project's merge requests only hold on to MR's where they are the target
- All operations performed in the satellite
The bad:
- Duplication between project's repositories and satellites (e.g. commits_between)
(for reference: http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/suggestions/3456722-merge-requests-between-projects-repos)
Fixes:
Make test repos/satellites only create when needed
-Spinach/Rspec now only initialize test directory, and setup stubs (things that are relatively cheap)
-project_with_code, source_project_with_code, and target_project_with_code now create/destroy their repos individually
-fixed remote removal
-How to merge renders properly
-Update emails to show project/branches
-Edit MR doesn't set target branch
-Fix some failures on editing/creating merge requests, added a test
-Added back a test around merge request observer
-Clean up project_transfer_spec, Remove duplicate enable/disable observers
-Ensure satellite lock files are cleaned up, Attempted to add some testing around these as well
-Signifant speed ups for tests
-Update formatting ordering in notes_on_merge_requests
-Remove wiki schema update
Fixes for search/search results
-Search results was using by_project for a list of projects, updated this to use in_projects
-updated search results to reference the correct (target) project
-udpated search results to print both sides of the merge request
Change-Id: I19407990a0950945cc95d62089cbcc6262dab1a8
Dmitriy Zaporozhets