That sounds awesome - convert the entire Sage development process to an online RPG, where the basic quests are merging tickets!
-Marshall On Jun 9, 3:34 am, Craig Citro <craigci...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've been > > thinking about writing something like this up for a while now, but > > there's never enough time to do everything one wants to in Sage :) > > For the record, I'm in the process of writing a first system for doing > this right now. It's mostly done (I can automatically get a string of > patches from a ticket, merge, and test, then either delete them from > the history or commit them -- thank you queues!), but it's far from > perfect. I'm going to be using it tomorrow to merge the tickets with > positive review, and I'm sure I'm bound to hit a few more bugs while I > do that. > > I'm definitely really excited to keep hearing what people want out of > such a system -- I'm just offering a heads-up, because I don't want > someone else to sit down and re-do the same work I've been doing. At > least until we decide that what I've done needs completely rewritten. > ;) > > In particular, I'm really curious what people think the right > interface for this is. I've done the following: I've written a bunch > of utility functions (to grab patches from a ticket, download a list > of patches to a temp dir, queue a bunch up, etc.) that I've put in the > sage library itself, since they seem like they'd be of independent > interest. However, the process of rebuilding and testing sage seems > unnatural to run from sage -- not impossible at all, just unnatural > (at least to me). So I've written a shell script that loads just the > utility file from the sage library, parses some command-line arguments > (with getopt), and then runs the process non-interactively. This will > work fine for a first go-round, but what do people want in general? > > I feel like the process of "download patches from a ticket, apply in > some order, rebuild and test, and commit" makes sense as a menu-based > text interface, especially if you want to do several in a row. Or am I > the only one that likes that idea? I did spend too much time on MUDs > in high school; maybe it's the reason I seem to want to turn release > management into a text-based adventure game. "You are in a dark room, > facing a massive patch bomb. Run, fight, or merge?" ... > > -cc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
