Matt Johnson writes in to tell us about how his team is using Subversion (SVN), a version control system, to send emails to a Backpack page. The team's clients can then check that page (or the page's RSS feed) to learn when changes were made to their site and what changed.
We recently switched from a fully featured Basecamp account (Time tracking, etc) to a Basic plan of Backpack to manage the team. The direction of the project we were using Basecamp changed some, so we thought we'd give Backpack a try.After adjusting a bit to the new workflow, I realized that I could make it a bit easier for my client to read when we make a change, and what we changed. We use SVN and so I just forwarded my SVN Commit emails to a Backpack page, which my client could then subscribe to the RSS feed of that page.
We'll be setting it up so that SVN sends it to Backpack right away, but for testing purposes I just have my Gmail account using a filter to forward it automatically. We have the subject of the commit email notification with the Note: syntax. Allowing the Backpack page to automatically parse the forwarded email into a note.
I thought it was kind of cool, so I thought I'd share it.
