Generate an email when a merge request is opened
ZD: https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/14358
Have Gitlab generate an email when a merge request is opened. Add checkbox on the project settings to enable/disable this option.
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This is a very nice explanation on the use case and workaround from the customer.
What we have been doing on the GitLab server is assigning the merge request to a specific person (which will generate an email to them) and then adding a comment with an @ mention for all of the users who should be involved in it. I would also recommend that people set their notification level to Watch.
I haven't tried creating a dummy user which has a mailing list as their email. Maybe that would work to ensure they are modified, but I'm not sure of that.