Status of Patchwatcher

[Seth Shelnutt]

2010/2/16 André Hentschel <nerv at dawncrow.de>

> Just some ideas by me:
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> Dan Kegel schrieb:
> > Seth Shelnutt wrote:
> >> I am wondering what that status of patchwatcher is?
> >
> > It's waiting around for somebody to have time to start it
> > up again.  It's ugly code, written in shell and perl, which
> > scares most people off.  One has to wonder whether it
> > shouldn't be done over again using buildbot, just to avoid
> > scaring people.  But it could live on in its present form
> > given time and attention.  Another problem is that the
> > code for watching for patch series is fragile.  We might
> > conceivably move to driving it from a web submission form
> > like WineTestBot uses, that would solve that.
>
> maybe we can merge patchwatcher with http://source.winehq.org/patches/ or
> let it just parse it and let patchwatcher run on an extra winetestbot
> machine??
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Well in that case then, perhaps an entire GSoC project could be devoted to
patchwatcher and getting it running again? I would be interested in doing
such a thing. I will download the code from your google site (I assume that
is the latest code?), and start having some fun with it to get myself
acquainted.


Thanks,

Seth Shelnutt
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