[haiku-development] Re: Mercurial

  • From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:20:12 +0100

On 2010-03-21 at 20:09:05 [+0100], Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 21 March 2010 19:53, Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 2010-03-21 at 19:25:24 [+0100], Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Am 21.03.2010 um 19:12 schrieb Matt Madia:
> >>
> >> > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 13:27, Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >> On 2010-03-21 at 16:28:33 [+0100], Andreas Färber 
> >> >> <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx
> >> >> >
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >>> It's the Trac -> SVN step that's the bigger burden for the
> >> >>> developers, I guess, and Patchwork doesn't help with that.
> >> >>
> >> >> Sounds like you've hit the nail on the head. To add something to the
> >> >> discussion, I think an automated Trac -> SVN workflow needs test
> >> >> suites as
> >> >> well. We would need build bots which need to run the tests with the
> >> >> patches
> >> >> applied and report regressions.
> >> >
> >> > Haiku Build-O-Matic is doing ok so far at detecting build breakage.
> >> > Though, there's plenty of room for improvement.
> >>
> >> In an ideal world, BOM would build a temporary dirty branch (trunk +
> >> patch(es)) and report back whether it still builds. :)
> >
> > Exactly. When someone adds a patch to Trac, this process would be 
> > triggered
> > automatically, with an indication besides the attachment that shows the
> > result. See <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35288> for an 
> > example.
> 
> First things first: I will first write a plugin for Trac that will
> allow users to mark attachments as patches and also obsolete them
> (much like Bugzilla does). I will also implement a 'patch queue' which
> should give a quick overview of what patches are up for review.

Wow, that will be pretty cool indeed!

Best regards,
-Stephan

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