Updated Sourceware infrastructure plans

[Matt Rice]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 5:38 PM Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi -
>
> > [...]  I suggest that a basic principle for such a system is that it
> > should be *easy* to obtain and maintain a local copy of the history
> > of all pull requests.  That includes all versions of a pull request,
> > if it gets rebased, and all versions of comments, if the system
> > allows editing comments.  A system that uses git as the source of
> > truth for all the pull request data and has refs [...]
>
> Do you know of a system with these characteristics?
>
> - FChE

The closest thing I know of which may have these characteristics is
alibaba's AGit-Flow described here:
https://git-repo.info/en/2020/03/agit-flow-and-git-repo/
It actually sends pull-requests through the git protocol using a
custom proc-receive hook.

I'm a bit uncertain how code-review comments are handled in their system,
And it isn't exactly something which can just be used off-the-shelf,
AFAIK their server
side implementation hasn't been released.

I had written a prototype-worthy implementation of the server-side git
hook here.
It basically allows sending a pull-request through git push, along
with a cover letter.
But i've never really used it in the full PR review cycle beyond that.

https://github.com/pullreqr/pullreqr_githook

But protocol-wise IMO it seems like a good basis for building a system
with these characteristics to me.