Hi everyone I'll start with the fun first, try this in a git.git: git fetch git://repo.or.cz/git/trast.git mailnotes && GIT_NOTES_REF=FETCH_HEAD git log origin/pu I played around with some python code over the weekend that automatically filters through git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx history and scans for patches, threads, and "What's cooking" messages. So far it seems to be working ok. The net effect is that we get a backwards patch tracker: instead of tracking the patches via some other means (say a web interface), the automatic annotations can reconstruct more information about the patches than what is eventually contained in the commits, and make it available via git-notes. Right now it only applies the patches that it finds, and associates that with known commits to annotate them. I eventually want to scan for replies to patch text too, and insert them into the notes too. I also plan to publish topics for the patches somewhere (they're already applied locally) and track at least a rudimentary status, perhaps one of "unreplied", "replied" and "accepted". (Distinguishing "rejected" seems AI-complete.) The whole process is a bunch of python scripts currently available at git://repo.or.cz/trackgit.git http://repo.or.cz/w/trackgit.git It's all a bit after-the-fact right now, and can't cope with a few things yet, for example patch series that aren't in git.git appearing out of sequence to the mail reader. Runtime is okay-ish so that I should be able to run it as a cronjob; note regeneration is almost negligible (<1min), importing a month's worth of mails takes on the order of 20min, and scanning history (to know about the base blobs) since v1.6.0 is around 3min. So the RFC bit is, is this useful to anyone? What information would you like to see in it, and what could be left out? And the RFH: I don't have a full mail archive, not even since I joined the list. There also doesn't seem to be a convenient download button on gmane. Does anyone have (or know of) an archive going at least back to v1.6.0 (not sure if any further back is interesting), which was released in August last year, that you could send to me? Thanks in advance :-) -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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