[Buildbot-devel] GitMailDirSource

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Brian S <brians1196 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am looking for a Git email parsing change source. I was reading through
> the mailing list and it looked like something got started in jan of 2011 but
> I see no documentation.

That certainly happens from time to time - projects are begun and
never finished.  I don't recall the specific case, and you haven't
provided a pointer to the archives.  Was there code produced?  Is it
in a sufficiently workable state that you could finish it off,
document it, and write tests for it?

> I use git request-pull messages sent to a mailing list and would like to
> parse the messages to trigger build test.
>
> Any advice?

You may want to consider the security implications.  Mailing lists are
not authenticated, so depending on how your Buildbot is configured,
you may be offering to run arbitrary code on your build systems.

Dustin