Re: [Arx-users] Real-world ArX usage

[Kevin Smith]

Walter Landry wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 08:41 -0400, Kevin Smith wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Then, I think we would use the patch queue manager to merge each
> > > developer's changes into a staging mirror of the master archive. I
> > > haven't looked at the PQM yet, but we would want a way to trigger it
> > > without using email.
>
>
> If you all have access to a shared filesystem, you can drop requests
> in a special directory.

That could work. I would probably have a daemon on the server that would 
monitor activity in each developer's archive and when new patches arrive 
it would creaate a pull request to trigger the PQM.

> > > In a perfect world, it would monitor each
> > > developer's mirrored archive, and automatically initiate the merge.
>
>
> Are you sure you want to do that?

I think so. Conceptually, when a developer submits changes to the master 
server, they are being committed to the master archive. So automatically 
pulling them into the master whenever they appear seems logical. In a 
perfect world, the daemon would wait for 5 minutes of inactivity, and 
then pull all pending changes. That's the approach taken by some CVS/Ant 
tools like CruiseControl and AntHill.

Do you see problems with this approach?

> > > I'm not sure whether we would prefer to pull these patches
> > > individually, or as a combined group.
>
>
> Unfortunately, you pretty much have to pull them as a group.  Making a
> "merge" command that applies patches one-at-a-time with appropriate
> summaries is on the todo list.

Ok.

Thanks,

Kevin