E-mail submitter upon patch acceptance

[Michael Halstead]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 8:38 AM Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2018-10-25 at 06:59 -0700, Michael Halstead wrote:
> > I've had a request from our community to automatically e-mail the
> > patch submitter when their patch moves to the "Done" status in
> > Patchwork. Is this something Patchwork is designed to do? If not can
> > it be easily modified to send notifications?
>
> This is supported by default: you can enable the notifications from
> your user profile, e.g.:
>
>   https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/user/
>
> Look at the 'notify?' column in the "Linked email addresses" field. You
> also have the events API, e.g.:
>
>   https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/api/events/
>
> This would let you build your own tooling around notifications
> including patch state. This was added in Patchwork v2.0 but I recommend
> v2.1, which resolves important performance issues.
>
> Stephen
>

Thank you Stephen. I'm playing with the option now and trying to test
it. If our contributors create accounts this should do what is
desired.

Michael Halstead