>> Anyway, how will commit notifications be handled using hg? Has there
>> been a policy decision about this? Will a hook be used to email
>> the changes to a list? If so, then buglist really doesn't have
>> to change much.
>
>Yes, they'd continue going to onnv-notify, at least in part.
>buglist would be better served using the logs, however.
>
>hg log -ronnv_74:onnv_75 --template '{desc}\n' | gegrep '[0-9]{7}'
>
>Where from-rev, and to-rev could be specified, of course.
>
>Are Dave Marker etc, on the alias you're using to workaround the mail
>issues? A lot of this stuff is reasonably their choice to make...
Yes, Dave and I have been communicating. However, we need to keep in mind
that the current gatekeeping procedures have evolved over nearly 20 years,
and have been the cumulative effort of *many* people. I am worried
that by re-inventing everything we may be throwing away a significant
amount of value that will (at some point) need to be invented again,
simply because those on the project team don't have the benefit of
knowing the history behind all the various mechanisms that are currently
used. A few of us know some of the history, but my knowledge only
covers roughly the last 10 of those 20 years - much of the heavy lifting
was done in the dark days of 2.1 and 2.2, when things were barely
buildable much of the time. The people who worked on that are now
either gone, or are DE's, and not involved in the day to day gate
operation.
I think it's important that some thought be given to how easy it is for
future gatekeepers to deal with whatever gets invented - not just the
current ones.
Sorry if it seems like I am slightly biased toward Teamware and the
current way things work...but it does work very well.
>
>Dave had suggested, at one point, that it maybe easier to scrap most
>of the existing stuff, find a machine to run as a pseudo-gate, and get
>everything working as if it were a gate, then just use those bits. I
>don't know how practical that is.
I'm not sure throwing away the collective wisdom of 20 years worth of
gatekeepers is such a good idea. But if the existing stuff won't
easily integrate with hg, then I guess there's not much choice.
The only way to find out is to try it, I suppose.
-ken
