l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > The best patch-tracking candidate I’ve seen so far is “patches”, written > by/for the QEMU people (the ‘patches’ package in Guix.) > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/#patches > > I think it has everything most of us want, including an Emacs interface. > > The main “difficulty” is setting it up on a machine where it can serve > those patches.json files over HTTP based on the mailing list archive > (which could be synced from <ftp://lists.gnu.org/guix-devel/>) and Git > repo. There’s a README in the the source tree that explains the > details: > > https://github.com/aliguori/patches/blob/master/README-server.md
As an experiment (it may disappear anytime), I generated the ‘patches.json’ file for “patches”, so you can now run: guix package -i patches patches fetch https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/patches/patches.json patches list status:committed The “documentation” is at: https://github.com/aliguori/patches/blob/master/README.md The project appears to be inactive though. :-/ For the record, on the server side, updating involves fetching the mailing list archive, converting it to Maildir, updating the notmuch database, the Git repo, and then the patch list (pheew!): --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- top_dir="$HOME/patches" maildir="$top_dir/mail" checkout="$top_dir/guix" date_month="`date +'%Y-%m'`" cd "$top_dir" wget -q -O "$date_month" "ftp://lists.gnu.org/guix-devel/$date_month"; mb2md -s "$top_dir/$date_month" -d "$maildir" notmuch new (cd "$checkout"; git pull) patches scan --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Ludo’.
