[Buildbot-devel] source change for sf.net hosted CVS

[Mark Pauley]

I have a cvs polling change-source implementation.  Anyone interested  
in my trying to push this upstream?

_Mark

On Jan 21, 2007, at 9:16 AM, Stefan Kost wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> the mail idea wont work well for sf.net hosted project as there is a  
> sync delay
> between the developer cvs and the read only cvs. I was looking at
>    http://buildbot.cvs.sourceforge.net/buildbot/buildbot/contrib/
>
> viewcvspoll.py seems to directl access the viewcvs mysql database :(
> fakechange.py from the commit-hook looks good, but then one still  
> has to handle
> the delay and I am not sure if they have twisted installed on the  
> sf.net cvs
> machines.
>
> Any other ideas? I wonder if something like this could work -  
> checking out the
> ChangeLog every e.g. 30 minutes and testing if it has been changed.
>
> Stefan
>
> Brian Warner wrote:
>> "ensonic" <ensonic at hora-obscura.de> writes:
>>
>>
>>> this might be a FAQ. How do I trigger source changes from a sf.net  
>>> hosted
>>> CVS. I can't install 'buildbot' there to do 'buildbot sendchange'  
>>> from the
>>> commithook.
>>
>>
>> For sf.net, I'd suggest using email. There are a couple of  
>> ChangeSources
>> which acquire mail in one way or another, and then parse them to  
>> determine
>> which files were changed (by whom, with which comments, etc). The  
>> existing
>> code knows how to poll a maildir for new messages, but it shouldn't  
>> be to
>> hard to add others. The parsing function depends upon what code is  
>> emitting
>> the mail message.. for sf.net CVS I think you'll want to use  
>> syncmail.
>>
>> The usual approach is to make sure your commithook sends mail to a  
>> mailing
>> list (usually named PROJECT-commits), and then subscribe your  
>> buildmaster's
>> account to this list. Then each time a file is changed, everybody  
>> (including
>> the buildmaster) gets email about it, and the buildmaster turns  
>> that email
>> into a Change object that triggers a new build.
>>
>> http://buildbot.sourceforge.net/manual-0.7.5.html#Other-mail-notification-ChangeSources
>> contains some information on these sorts of change sources, but it  
>> probably
>> needs to be expanded a bit.
>>
>> hope that helps,
>>  -Brian
>
>
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