RE: How to watch a mailing list & repo for patches which affect a certain area of code?

From: Jason Pyeron <jpyeron@pdinc.us>
Date: Oct 9, 2016, 21:26 UTC
Message-ID: <4B3747D8D2724E98B6AC000FE4072A09@black7>
In-Reply-To: <1476039798.3060702.750483225.1DE6C48B@webmail.messagingengine.com>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Kelling
> Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2016 15:03
> 
> I've got patches in various projects, and I don't have time to keep up
> with the mailing list, but I'd like to help out with 
> maintenance of that
> code, or the functions/files it touches. People don't cc me. 
> I figure I
> could filter the list, test patches submitted, commits made, 
> mentions of
> files/functions, build filters based on the code I have in 
> the repo even
> if it's been moved or changed subsequently. I'm wondering what other
> people have implemented already for automation around this, or general
> thoughts. Web search is not showing me much.
>

One thought would be to apply every patch automatically (to the branches of interest?). Then trigger on the [successful] changed code. This would simplify the logic to working on the source only and not parsing the emails.

-Jason