Re: Guix Data Service can now poll for new revisions/branches

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Christopher,

Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> writes:

> Hey,
>
> As has happened before in the past, at the moment we're not getting
> emails to guix-commits for the main guix.git repository. This impacts
> the data service instances as they use these emails to know when there
> are new revisions to process.
>
> I've now added the ability to configure the data service to poll the
> repository for changes and I've enabled this on both data.guix.gnu.org
> and data.qa.guix.gnu.org, which should mean they'll be shortly back up
> to date.
>
> This sounds easy, but it was a little tricky to implement, as I didn't
> want to remove the email feature in favour of polling, at least not
> yet. It's also had a large impact on data.qa.guix.gnu.org, as now it's
> learned about lots of older branches that it didn't know about before.

Ludovic recently implemented a mechanism to notify Cuirass of new
commits via the Savannah server-side git hook; perhaps you could use
that as well?  It should be cheaper than polling on the git repo.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim