[Buildroot] Buildroot, github and nopullrequest.com

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 15:58:35 +0200, Angelo Compagnucci wrote:

> > I just created https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot.github.io for
> > this purpose, and then realized that we use SSI includes. I think we
> > should probably move away from SSI includes, to a more modern web-site
> > generation mechanism, like Pelican (http://blog.getpelican.com/) or
> > similar.  
> 
> I'm not too familiar with these systems. Usually they are not too
> flexibles and they tend make difficult to write your own theme for the
> website. Thay are also blog oriented and not too much website
> oriented.

Then you indeed don't know such systems very well, because they tend to
be quite flexible. For example, the https://2016.capitoledulibre.org/
(french) website is generated by Pelican.

> >> 2) We have a github account, we should use it as the main repository.
> >> No other words here.  
> >
> > Well, there is one *big* issue: e-mail notifications. They are not
> > available by default, and the only thing that people have been able to
> > do so far is to have notifications with one e-mail per push (i.e one
> > e-mail covering potentially multiple commits). This is definitely not
> > acceptable, and is a show-stopper to moving to github.  
> 
> I didn't realized github is so limited ...

That's a very strong issue with Github. Until this is resolved, no way
we can switch to Github.

> > I'm not sure I like giving access to https://nopullrequests.com to my
> > Google account.  
> 
> You can jump that step, the important is to give the permission to
> close the PRs (github permission). Obviously is not the most clean
> solution, but the only viable one.

Not sure what you mean, but:

 * The https certificate of nopullrequests.com is invalid.

 * If I say "No thanks" when it asks me to log in with my Google
   account, it just redirects me to the Google homepage. Not very
   useful.

> I had a look at infradead.org and to it seems way less solid than the
> infrastructure we have now. On the homepage
> (http://www.infradead.org/) the author seems to look for a job ...

Well, if you search a bit, the guy in question is David Woodhouse
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwmw2). He has worked at RedHat for 8
years, and now is at Intel since 8 years. Not sure he is looking for a
job.

infradead.org is used for the ARM kernel mailing list, which receives
much more traffic than the Buildroot one. The Git infrastructure of
infradead is also widely used by kernel people. Grep "infradead.org" in
the kernel MAINTAINERS file.

> >  2/ Migration of the bug tracker history. How do we move Bugzilla
> >     entries to the Github issue tracker? All references of bug tracker
> >     entries in Buildroot commits would become wrong. Not nice.  
> 
> Right, good catch.
> 
> Very intricate problem ...

Indeed.

So as you can see, moving to another infra is not that simple :-/

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com