On Tuesday 26 September 2006 22:55, Jeremy White wrote:
1. We can write a utility that lets us compare a winehq commit message to a wine-patches email and see if there is a 'match'. 100% isn't required, but some nice non zero number is. A key requirement is that there are near zero false hits.
This (and point 2) is similar to what the Patchwork author is thinking of doing anyway. I was hoping to achieve something a little more than that by providing something that might actually streamline Alexandre's processes and so make it attractive to move to.
What might be good is if we could get a vncrec http://www.sodan.org/~penny/vncrec/ file showing a typical patch review and application session. If we could get one within the next 24 hours, I could take it away and document the process by Tuesday, together with indicating any areas where the process could be improved by a new system.
I guess it's the latter point that is key. We can automate some of this, but in the end, some human monitoring will be required.
However one principle should be that to the maximum extent possible, the system should *trigger* a reaction rather than just hoping somebody takes an action.
But I should point out I'm not rushing to volunteer to write the daemon or revise Patchwork or actually do any useful work...
It's in Perl anyway, best left to Perl hackers. Other people tend to go insane working on Perl code, and then they *become* Perl hackers. (On the other hand it's fairly small now so a rewrite in some other language is feasible if necessary).