Retirement of SVN Commitfilter and Legacy Get Hot New Stuff systems

[Ben Cooksley]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> El diumenge, 30 de juliol de 2017, a les 17:44:31 CEST, Boudewijn Rempt va
> escriure:
>> Nah, it isn't that important. Just subscribe to the commits mailing list
>> and add some rules to your email client to separate out the various
>> repositories is easy enough. _If_ the commit filter were really important,
>> someone would have maintained it, right? If there's no maintainer, there's
>> no importance.
>
> I never felt the need to step up as maintainer as it simply works (for me) and
> I did not see the calls for maintainership if they did happen.

While not a full formal call for assistance, on March 14 on the
kde-devel mailing list I asked for anyone interested in working on
commitfilter to please contact me.

There were some casual references in other communication as well I think.

>
> What is not clear is if the emails i'm getting when someone commits to e.g
> Okular or kgeography come from here or from somewhere else.
>
> How do i know where they come from?

This can be done by examining the email headers. How you access those
is dependent on your specific mail client, but you'll see it passing
through a system called "kdeget.osuosl.org" if it is coming from
commitfilter.

>
> Cheers,
>   Albert

Cheers,
Ben

>
>>
>> On Sun, 30 Jul 2017, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Idem for me with digiKam. Commit filter is a main tool used to follow
>> > all contributors and see if something is badly done with commits. It's
>> > main rules for open source project with a large amount of code, and a
>> > lots of coder (as students)
>> >
>> > Please reconsider to revival this important piece of software. It's
>> > very important...
>> >
>> > Best
>> >
>> > Gilles Caulier
>> >
>> > 2017-07-30 13:34 GMT+02:00 Dominik Haumann <dhaumann at kde.org>:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
>> > >> Hi all,
>> > >> [...]
>> > >> Due to the age of the system and the limited use of the two services
>> > >> hosted on the system (with SVN Commitfilter having very limited
>> > >> application since our migration to Git) we've determined that the best
>> > >> course of action is to archive both services and shutdown the machine.
>> > >> [...]
>> > >
>> > > I am still using commit-filter to read all diffs for kate.git,
>> > > syntax-highlighting.git,
>> > > ktexteditor.git, and some dedicated authors.
>> > >
>> > > For me, commit-filter was always a very convenient way of tracking KDE
>> > > development, and subscribing to some git on phabricator is not good
>> > > enough
>> > > for me (I like the current form of generated mails much more).
>> > >
>> > > Is the solution to subscribe to all kde-commits at kde.org, and then do the
>> > > filtering myself, or is there still another way / or any plans to get
>> > > commit-filter
>> > > back?
>> > >
>> > > Greetings
>> > > Dominik
>
>