gerrit's mail when adding a reviewer

[d.ostrovsky at idaia.de]

Quoting Stephan Bergmann <sbergman at redhat.com>:

> On 03/28/2013 10:22 AM, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 01:28:18PM +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>>> Just noticed that when I add a reviewer to somebody else's change,
>>> gerrit sends a mail taking on my identity ("Stephan Bergmann (via
>>> Code Review) <gerrit at gerrit.libreoffice.org>") claiming "I have
>>> submitted a patch for review."  But I did not submit anything for
>>> review, I merely invited somebody else to also review something.  I
>>> find that confusing at least.
>>
>> If you find a better wording, submit a patch for:
>>
>>   
>> https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=gerrit-etc.git;a=blob;f=mail/NewChange.vm;h=34af52f6a6c9a90fe9e9bb758d9c9721eea9bba0;hb=a60a0f9771a6d31c3e6c0c1b3745613264678b3f
>
> But is that text only used when one adds an additional reviewer to  
> an existing change, or is it also used for the initial mail when a  
> new change is uploaded?

let code speak:

https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit/+/master/gerrit-server/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/server/change/PostReviewers.java

in the method

private void postAdd(Change change, PostResult result)
mail is unconditionally sent using AddReviewerSender factory:

if (!added.isEmpty()) {
       AddReviewerSender cm;
[...]
       cm.send();
     }

looking at it:

public class AddReviewerSender extends NewChangeSender

you can figure out, that it inherits from NewChangeSender:

https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit/+/master/gerrit-server/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/server/mail/NewChangeSender.java

using that template:

@Override
   protected void formatChange() throws EmailException {
     appendText(velocifyFile("NewChange.vm"));
   }

and looking at RTFM it is even documented:

http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.6/config-mail.html#_newchange_vm

If that is not what you expect, file a gerrit bug here:
https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/list

David