[Openstack] A possible alternative to Gerrit ...

Ben McGraw ben at pistoncloud.com
Thu Sep 1 22:25:28 UTC 2011


++ from me as well.

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Dan Prince <dan.prince at rackspace.com>wrote:

> ++
>
> The closer we can get to really using GitHub the better.
>
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Sandy Walsh" <sandy.walsh at RACKSPACE.COM>
> Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2011 1:56pm
> To: "openstack at lists.launchpad.net" <openstack at lists.launchpad.net>
> Subject: [Openstack] A possible alternative to Gerrit ...
>
>  Hey!
>
> Last night I did some hacking on HubCap. HubCap is a simple script that
> monitors Pull Requests in GitHub. It spits out a static HTML page of the
> requests workflow status.
>
> It infers workflow status by looking for keywords in the comments. It's so
> simple it's stupid. The last keyword from a commentor is considered their
> vote. When we have a quorum, it can kick off a jenkins build. If that
> succeeds, it can be merged. It uses the core members already assigned to the
> repo.
>
> It's just a hack right now. But I think it could effectively let us use
> GitHub as intended and still have the voting power of LP.
>
> You can see a (static) sample of the output here from python-novaclient:
> http://www.darksecretsoftware.com/hubcap.html
>
> code is here: https://github.com/SandyWalsh/hubcap
>
> As fate would have it, I bounced this off a few people and learned about
> 0x44's Roundabout project:
> https://github.com/ChristopherMacGown/roundabout
>
> Roundabout is certainly more mature than HubCap, and has CI hooks, daemon
> code, etc, but no real workflow. I'm going to merge the hubcap code into
> Roundabout and press on from there for novaclient.
>
> Love to get your thoughts (and contributions) on this.
>
> Cheers,
> Sandy
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