Re: [Nix-dev] Nixpkgs monitor moved!

2014-01-15 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Phreedom, I could try solving it at the UI level, store the desired author in a cookie... it's quite cumbersome nevertheless. I was thinking the same thing. There already is a select box that contains all known maintainers. It shouldn't be too hard to add another field where people can

Re: [Nix-dev] Nixpkgs monitor moved!

2014-01-14 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 13/01/14 15:53, Rob Vermaas wrote: The Nixpkgs monitor server made by phreedom (Evgeny Egorochkin) has moved to a new (easier to remember) URL: http://monitor.nixos.org/ I have started using it already to update packages. It provides a nice overview of packages that might have

Re: [Nix-dev] Nixpkgs monitor moved!

2014-01-14 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 01/14/2014 01:56 PM, Eelco Dolstra wrote: Yes, thanks to Evgeny, this is very nice:-) One comment: could we please set the Author field of commits to the person doing the actual commit? Now we have all these unaccountable commits from Nixpkgs Monitor none@none. The committer is accounted,

Re: [Nix-dev] Nixpkgs monitor moved!

2014-01-14 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 01/14/2014 03:01 PM, Eelco Dolstra wrote: But the committer is not shown in GitHub email messages, and tends to get lost if you do things like cherry-picking into another branch, or commiting a pull request from somebody else. Github accounts for this author wrongly... it collects all with

Re: [Nix-dev] Nixpkgs monitor moved!

2014-01-14 Thread Moritz Ulrich
Vladimír Čunát writes: On 01/14/2014 03:01 PM, Eelco Dolstra wrote: But the committer is not shown in GitHub email messages, and tends to get lost if you do things like cherry-picking into another branch, or commiting a pull request from somebody else. Github accounts for this author

Re: [Nix-dev] Nixpkgs monitor moved!

2014-01-14 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 01/14/2014 04:29 PM, Moritz Ulrich wrote: The current approach looks correct to me: Nixpkgs-Monitor is the original author of the patch, and applying this patch merely makes you the committer, not the author. Yes, it does seem consistent: author generated it and committer reviewed it. When

Re: [Nix-dev] Nixpkgs monitor moved!

2014-01-14 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 01/14/2014 05:09 PM, Eelco Dolstra wrote: Unless the commits are performed automatically by a daemon or something, it does *not* make sense to set Author to Nixpkgs Monitor. I use all sorts of tools to help me make patches (say nix-generate-from-cpan), but I don't put that in the Author

Re: [Nix-dev] Nixpkgs monitor moved!

2014-01-14 Thread phreedom
On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 01:56:35 PM Eelco Dolstra wrote: One comment: could we please set the Author field of commits to the person doing the actual commit? Now we have all these unaccountable commits from Nixpkgs Monitor none@none. I could try solving it at the UI level, store the

[Nix-dev] Nixpkgs monitor moved!

2014-01-13 Thread Rob Vermaas
Hi guys, The Nixpkgs monitor server made by phreedom (Evgeny Egorochkin) has moved to a new (easier to remember) URL: http://monitor.nixos.org/ I have started using it already to update packages. It provides a nice overview of packages that might have updates, you can download patches for

Re: [Nix-dev] Nixpkgs monitor moved!

2014-01-13 Thread Mathijs Kwik
I have seen these commits. Is there anything we (maintainers) should do to get our packages monitored? Some extra meta info to help discovery? And thanks phreedom for creating this! I think this will eventually save a lot of time for everyone. Rob Vermaas rob.verm...@gmail.com writes: Hi

Re: [Nix-dev] Nixpkgs monitor moved!

2014-01-13 Thread Peter Simons
FYI, the monitor appears to be down, i.e. any attempt to generate an update patch fails with some kind of database error. Take care, Peter ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

Re: [Nix-dev] Nixpkgs monitor moved!

2014-01-13 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 01/13/2014 04:56 PM, Peter Simons wrote: FYI, the monitor appears to be down, i.e. any attempt to generate an update patch fails with some kind of database error. I managed to generate some patches now, maybe just some cases are broken... I find it a great tool... it even provides error

Re: [Nix-dev] Nixpkgs monitor moved!

2014-01-13 Thread phreedom
On Monday, January 13, 2014 04:53:37 PM Mathijs Kwik wrote: I have seen these commits. Is there anything we (maintainers) should do to get our packages monitored? Some extra meta info to help discovery? meta.repositories.git, meta.homepage. I'm currently testing the code that leverages these

Re: [Nix-dev] Nixpkgs monitor moved!

2014-01-13 Thread phreedom
On Monday, January 13, 2014 04:56:08 PM Peter Simons wrote: FYI, the monitor appears to be down, i.e. any attempt to generate an update patch fails with some kind of database error. Hopefully some kind of a fix fill be available once you report the specific error ;) Sqlite sometimes makes it