Re: email backend for fedmsg

2020-03-28 Thread clime
>>> > > - Some of our IRC bots are triggered by procmail rules. >>> > > - At some point mentors.debian.net depended on a NNTP gateway to >>> the debian-devel-changes mailing list to trigger removal of superseded >>> packages (...) >>> > &g

Re: email backend for fedmsg

2020-03-25 Thread Peter Silva
f questions is going? fedmsg in >> Debian has been dead for years at this point, and there still doesn't seem >> to be much interest to implement anything beyond email parsing in some of >> our core systems. >> > >> > Cool, so basically what I am thinking about

Re: email backend for fedmsg

2020-03-25 Thread clime
gt; Cool, so basically what I am thinking about is to create a free >> > software from what you are describing. I.e. create reusable tooling >> > out of the Debian messaging system. Something that a new linux >> > distribution can easily start using to connect their se

Re: email backend for fedmsg

2020-03-25 Thread clime
gt; > > I didn't know Debian infra works like this but I find it very > > elegant/efficient and I would like the solution you have to be > > reusable by others. > > > > So basically the tooling should contain: > > - unified email message format > > - library

Re: email backend for fedmsg

2020-03-24 Thread clime
ers. > > So basically the tooling should contain: > - unified email message format > - library that is able to translate a message to a language data > structure (e.g. dictionary in python) > - email receiver that would be listening for emails coming from the > bus and emitting e

Re: email backend for fedmsg

2020-03-24 Thread clime
g events based on that (this could be part of the library so you would be able to attach a callback for an incoming message or just do blocking waits) - email publisher - something that can send a new message into the bus, i.e. to a preconfigured mail server (a "broker" or "hub")

Re: email backend for fedmsg

2020-03-24 Thread Nicolas Dandrimont
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020, at 21:51, clime wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 20:40, Nicolas Dandrimont wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2020, at 13:06, clime wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > > > Ad. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/07/msg00377.html - > > > fedmsg usage in Debian. > > > >

Re: email backend for fedmsg

2020-03-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Clime, On 24-03-2020 21:51, clime wrote: > So do you have the opposite? I do some clicking action somewhere and > it will send an email to a certain mailing list to inform human > beings? Or let's not just clicking but e.g. `git push` (something that > you can still do from command line). > >

Re: email backend for fedmsg

2020-03-24 Thread clime
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 20:40, Nicolas Dandrimont wrote: > > Hi! > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2020, at 13:06, clime wrote: > > Hello! > > > > Ad. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/07/msg00377.html - > > fedmsg usage in Debian. > > > > There is a note: "it seems that people actually like parsing

Re: email backend for fedmsg

2020-03-24 Thread Nicolas Dandrimont
Hi! On Sun, Mar 22, 2020, at 13:06, clime wrote: > Hello! > > Ad. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/07/msg00377.html - > fedmsg usage in Debian. > > There is a note: "it seems that people actually like parsing emails" This was just a way to say that fedmsg never got much of a user

Re: email backend for fedmsg

2020-03-24 Thread Peter Silva
MQTT is the best thing going for interop purposes. On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 1:20 PM Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2020-03-24 13:09:35 -0400 (-0400), Peter Silva wrote: > [...] > > We could talk about the merits of various protocols (I see fedmsg > > uses ZeroMQ) but that is a deep rabbit hole... to

Re: email backend for fedmsg

2020-03-24 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2020-03-24 13:09:35 -0400 (-0400), Peter Silva wrote: [...] > We could talk about the merits of various protocols (I see fedmsg > uses ZeroMQ) but that is a deep rabbit hole... to me, fedmsg looks > like it is making a ZeroMQ version of a broker (which is a bit > ironic given the original point

Re: email backend for fedmsg

2020-03-24 Thread Peter Silva
lly like parsing emails" > > What about adding email backend to fedmsg then. Wouldn't it be an > interesting idea? It could basically rely on postfix for sending > messages, hence providing decentralization as well as high > reliability. I think that amount of events that happen in d

Re: email backend for fedmsg

2020-03-23 Thread clime
The email backend might be quite a heavy-weight idea ... although I think it would do the job if properly setup and _very_ reliably. I was thinking about something similar to google pub/sub. Another approach how to add reliability to the current fedmsg would be to add an optional sqlite

email backend for fedmsg

2020-03-22 Thread clime
Hello! Ad. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/07/msg00377.html - fedmsg usage in Debian. There is a note: "it seems that people actually like parsing emails" What about adding email backend to fedmsg then. Wouldn't it be an interesting idea? It could basically rely