From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:14:33 GMT
Subject: Re: CIA hook for contrib/
Message-ID: <7veij3bqnq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100327102632.GA5043@thyrsus.com>

Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> writes:

> Summary:
> * The CIA hooks for git are presently dusty and somewhat broken.

Thanks; but I don't ship any ancient hooks, so this probably wants to be
sent to whoever still have them displayed on their sites.

> * I am requesting that they be given a home in git contrib/.

I gave a quick read to the shell one, and I found it reasonable.  Thanks
for sharing.

One tiny nit is the "git --exec-path" bit, though.  You don't seem to use
any ancient "git-frotz" form, so it is not just unnecessary but is
misleading.  I'd recommend to just drop it.

Another tiny nit is that you _might_ want to make it fail loudly if
somebody copies this out of contrib/ without changing $project properly,
instead of spamming cia with bogus messages claiming that they pertain to
the GPSD project.

> I am also enclosing a rewrite in Python. This has a serious functional
> advantage over either Perl or sh; the batteries-included effect of the
> Python libraries means it's not dependent on things like the path
> location of sendmail or whether the hosting site will allow it to
> run wget.
> ...
> Code is enclosed.

Thanks.  Could you send a signed-off patch that creates contrib/ciabot/
directory, and places these two files in there, with a README describing
that you are the maintainer of these tools?