[Geany-Devel] Github Comment Mails

[Matthew Brush]

On 15-09-02 01:13 PM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> On 22/08/15 12:13, Matthew Brush wrote:
>> On 15-08-22 12:51 AM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
>>> On 22/08/15 02:03, Lex Trotman wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I don't which way to go.
>>> Grabbing the comments from the API is possible as I said above, I know
>>> the API is quite easy to use, did so for the IRC commit messages and the
>>> commit mails.
>>>
>>> The Geany account notifications are very quick to setup. I don't
>>> volunteer to write a script using the Github API although easy. If you
>>> want to, I'd be happy to help setting it up if necessary.
>>>
>>
>>
>> The email notifications way sounds clean and simple. If it turns out not
>> to work right, we could try more elaborate API scripts and such.
>
> Done: http://lists.geany.org/pipermail/github-comments/
>
> This is the new mailing list.
> I added the list address as notification email address to the geanyadmin
> user and make this user to watch all repositories of the Geany Github
> organization.
> We just need to remember to make the geanyadmin user watch any new
> repositories we create or even any other repositories on Github as
> necessary.
>
> I don't think it's that useful to subscribe to this list, the archive is
> probably more interesting.
>
> For now, I didn't set up Gmane to archive this list. It might be useful
> to have the archive searchable. If anyone wants to do it, feel free.
>


Thanks!

It would definitively be useful to be searchable, but I have no idea how 
to hack on that mailman (Gmane?) thing, or however it goes.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush