[2019-02-01 12:15] Hiltjo Posthuma <hil...@codemadness.org>
>
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 10:18:32AM +0100, Silvan Jegen wrote:
> > [2019-01-31 20:47] Hiltjo Posthuma <hil...@codemadness.org>
> > > I'd like to show an experiment I made for automatically testing patches 
> > > on the
> > > wiki.  Its purpose is it to have a quick overview of broken patches on 
> > > the wiki.
> > > I hope this will also help the community and patch authors in fixing these
> > > patches together and pushing them to the public wiki repository.
> > >
> > > HTML view:         https://gunther.suckless.org/patches/
> > > CSV parsable list: https://gunther.suckless.org/patches/index.csv
> > >
> > > It is sorted currently by: project, patch name, project version.
> > 
> > Cool and useful stuff!
> > 
> > 
> > > The HTML view links to the original index page of the patch and the 
> > > stderr and
> > > stdout output of the patch command. Patches are tested with the command:
> > >
> > >   patch -p1 -t -C < patchfile
> > >
> > > The exitcode is the exitcode of this command ($?).
> > >
> > > It works by parsing the project, version/revision from the patch filename 
> > > then
> > > it creates a clean tree from the project git repository of this revision 
> > > and
> > > tries to apply the patch. It is important the patches are consistent and
> > > correctly named on the wiki. For format guidelines see:
> > > https://suckless.org/hacking/
> > >
> > > It also finds incorrect revision names, these are shown on this link for 
> > > now:
> > > https://gunther.suckless.org/patches/err.log
> > >
> > > I'm unsure if this will be run automated or so, but it was fun to write 
> > > anyway.
> > 
> > Having something like this run in an automated fashion at a regular
> > interval seems useful to me.
> > 
> > Is the code that you used to generate this page available somewhere?
> > 
>
> I've pushed the initial script, it is available here:
> https://git.suckless.org/sites/file/testpatches.sh.html

Nice, thanks!


Cheers,

Silvan

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