Phabricator - notifications for patch reviewers

[Ralph Bean]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 08:36:24AM -0500, Kamil Paral wrote:
> At present if somebody posts a patch for review in Phab, he fills in
> the Reviewers fields with some possible review candidates so that
> the people are notified. Usually me, Martin and Tim appear in that
> field.
> 
> I wonder if there is a better approach. Anyone interested in doing
> code reviews could set up a Herald rule to watch review requests in
> the particular repository. This is my "Differential Revisions"
> herald rule:
> 
> > When all of these conditions are met: 
> >   Repository is any of rLTRN (libtaskotron)
> > Take these actions every time this rule matches:
> >   Send an email to kparal
> 
> With this rule, you get notified once when the review is created,
> but not on its updates (unless you choose to get CC'd or you're
> specified in the Reviewers field).
> 
> If all of us (I, Martin, Tim, Josef, Petr and anyone else
> interested) set it up this way, we will be notified of incoming
> review requests, and people don't need to put a large number of
> names blindly into the Reviewers field. Of course they still can
> some provide some names manually, to create some pressure on the
> most likely reviewers :-) With this approach it's also easy to see
> which reviews are "taken" and which are still free to take (empty
> reviewers list).
> 
> So, if you're just slightly interested in doing some code reviews, I
> think that creating such Herald rule is a good way to follow what's
> going on. At the moment it can be created just for libtaskotron,
> because that's the only repository we mirror (and the rule seems to
> be based on repositories, not projects). But we can easily start
> mirroring repositories of other projects as well, I believe.

This sounds great.. but what is Herald?  Is it a webapp?  Can you link
us to more instructions?
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