[Mesa-dev] Thoughts after hitting 100 merge requests?

[Jason Ekstrand]

On January 17, 2019 08:58:03 Erik Faye-Lund <erik.faye-lund at collabora.com> 
wrote:

> On Thu, 2019-01-17 at 14:37 +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 at 07:38, Erik Faye-Lund
>> <erik.faye-lund at collabora.com> wrote:
>>> 1. New MRs should probably get their cover-letter automatically
>>> sent to
>>> the mailing list for incrased visibility.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> I don't think any of these issues are show-stoppers from moving
>>> entirely to MRs, though. Perhaps issue #1 here should be fixed
>>> first,
>>> dunno...
>>>
>>> Issue #1 is of course "just" a matter of writing some script that
>>> gets
>>> triggered by a hook. It's just work that needs to be done; any of
>>> us
>>> that complain about it could take up the work, I suppose.
>>>
>>> The only question is where to host such a service... perhaps it's
>>> just
>>> a gitlab CI step? That way we'd get some "automatic" cloud
>>> computing
>>> power to do the work, but it doesn't really seem like a perfect
>>> fit;
>>> we'd need to be able to distinguis between CI steps that are
>>> triggered
>>> due to new
>>
>> Unfinished sentence?
>
> Whoops! I meant to say something like "we'd need to be able to
> distinguis between CI steps that are triggered due to new MRs versus
> updated MRs, or pushes to existing branches".
>
>> Anyway, Jason did actually write that hook, and it's something I'm
>> happy to host on existing fd.o machines. I just haven't got to doing
>> it, since I ended up taking my sabbatical a lot more seriously than I
>> expected, and now I'm back to work I've got a bit of a backlog. But
>> we
>> can definitely do it, and pretty soon.
>
> Cool, then I won't worry about it, and just assume it'll appear
> magically soon :)

My script was a total hack. It's probably massively insecure and doesn't 
include any code to provide a diffstat which has been requested by several 
people. Someone taking it a bit more seriously would probably be good 
before we deploy anything.

--Jason