[Geany-Devel] Github Comment Mails

[Lex Trotman]

On 22 August 2015 at 09:54, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
> On 15-08-21 02:26 PM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
>>
>> On 19/08/15 05:46, Matthew Brush wrote:
>>>
>>> On 15-08-18 08:43 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 19 August 2015 at 13:37, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible to make an archived mailing list which can contain
>>>>> threads of
>>>>> comments posted to Github (maybe using Github API)? We have sometimes
>>>>> when
>>>>> squash commits it deletes Github comments, but I thought maybe we
>>>>> could have
>>>>> some stable backup + URL to link to (ex. in commit messages, on the
>>>>> mailing
>>>>> list, etc) which could be searchable and googlable and not be deleted
>>>>> by
>>>>> rebase.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Or by the remote deleting the branch
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, it would be archived and not affected by force pushes, delete
>>> branches or editing of comments.
>>
>>
>> Nice idea.
>> The mailing list itself would be no problem at all. It's more difficult
>> to get the data from Github.
>> On https://github.com/geany/geany/settings/hooks there is "services" and
>> they support "Email" but it will send mails only on pushes, not what we
>> want.
>> An alternative would a web hook where you can choose detailed on which
>> events the hook is triggered. But then you need something on the
>> receiving side which takes the event and transform it into a mail to
>> send it to the mailing list. Possible but requires some work.
>>
>> I just had a quick look at the available other services
>> (https://api.github.com/hooks) to find one which support commit and PR
>> comments and support something self-hosted (i.e. no new dependency on
>> some third-party service) but didn't find anything suitable.
>>
>> One more option might be to use the Geany Github account and watch the
>> Geany repositories with this account to get notifications this way.
>> We just need to take care to setup a separate email address in the
>> Github account settings for notifications because the primary address
>> will be used for account settings/notifications/password resets. Those
>> should not be sent to a public mailing list :).
>> Should be possible and probably the easiest way.
>>
>> If you agree, I could work on this.
>>
>
> Sounds like a good idea.
>
> Did you look at the Github API proper? We could probably hack up a script to
> harvest the comments that way (it's really easy to use IIRC, it's just some
> URL queries and JSON responses). It might still need a service hook or cron
> event or something to trigger, but it might be workable.

Could probably just get them daily for this purpose.

Cheers
Lex


>
> Cheers,
> Matthew Brush
>
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