Re: 0 bot for Git

[Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 12:23 AM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> Thanks for your talk at the Git Merge 2016!
>> The Git community uses the same workflow as the kernel. So we may be
>> interested in the 0 bot which could compile and test each patch on the list.
>
> In the case of Git, we already have Travis-CI that can do rather
> thorough testing automatically (run the complete testsuite on a clean
> machine for several configurations). You get the benefit from it only if
> you use GitHub pull-requests today.

But who uses that? (Not a lot of old-timers here, that's for sure)

> It would be interesting to have a
> bot watch the list, apply patches and push to a travis-enabled fork of
> git.git on GitHub to get the same benefit when posting emails directly
> to the list.

That is better (and probably more work) than what I had in mind.
IIUC the 0 bot can grab a patch from a mailing list and apply it to a
base (either the real base as encoded in the patch or a best guess)
and then run "make".

At least that's how I understand the kernel setup. So my naive thought
is that the 0 bot maintainer "only" needs to add another mailing list
to the watch list of the 0 bot?

Stefan

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