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Re: Patch pinging
On 10 June 2010 22:05, Quentin Neill <quentin.neill.gnu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 7 June 2010 22:43, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>> The patch tracker (http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GCC_Patch_Tracking) is not
>>> currently operating.
>>>
>>> Would anybody like to volunteer to get it working again?
>>
>> I'm not volunteering, but I might look into it one day....
>>
>> If dberlin doesn't still have the code, it shouldn't be too hard...
>>
>> ... a script which periodically crawls the gcc-patches archive might suffice...
>
> I have a python script which crawls, caches, and parses the gcc-cvs
> (and binutils-cvs) email archive pages. ?I wrote it to help another
> script that correlates patch revisions in a branch (where the
> Changelog refers to revisions on the trunk) back to the useful
> Changelog entries in the trunk.
>
> I could submit that to contrib, it could be modified to scrape most of
> the information above into a single monthly report.
>
> Any interest?
I don't think such a script would be better than
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/gcc/list/
What we would need is some way to detect that patches have been
committed. Otherwise that list will grow uncontrollably very fast.
Cheers,
Manuel.