Re: [gentoo-project] Official rsync->git mirror & 'Git mirror' project announcement

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
<ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:22:21 +0100
> Alexey Lapitsky <lex.public@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here's a naive example how it might work:
>>
>> 1. A user creates a PR
>> 2. travis-ci automatically runs QA tests: repoman full on the PR,
>> reports the result back
>> 3. Github hook is emitted, a "system" does some processing: for
>> example, create a bug in bugzilla, notify the maintainer, comment on
>> the PR
>> 4. The relevant maintainer checks the PR, comments: "looks fine,
>> merging" 5. Github hook is emitted to "the system", which checks the
>> PR comments, does some sanity checks, merges commit back to cvs,
>> rejects the PR
>>
>> "The system" might be a simple script which has opt-in membership for
>> the subsystems / maintainers who wants to use it.
>>
>> Does it sound sane?
>
> Exherbo has been doing something along those lines for ages, and not
> just for repoman: there's also full build testing (from a clean system,
> to check dependencies are correct). It's not very hard to do.
>

Including having two repositories both being committed to, with a
delayed propagation of commits from each to the other?  Somehow I
doubt that is what you're doing with exherbo.

The CI isn't the part I'm picking on here.  The idea of still working
in cvs while having a separate CI and commit path in git that applies
back to cvs is the part that sounds rather prone to breakage.  That
seems like a massive hack.  The real solution is to get the heck off
of cvs.

-- 
Rich