Bug#977174: vcswatch: web hook for changed repositories
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 05:40:31PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Jelmer Vernooij
> > It would be great if vcswatch could call a webhook whenever a packaging
> > repository changed.
> currently repository information is extracted from the Sources files
> in unstable and experimental, i.e. vcswatch doesn't follow changes in
> Vcs-* inside the repository.
>
> While in theory possible, it could mean that we'd have to chase a
> non-trivial list of redirects if the other repository points elsewhere
> as well. Not sure we'd want to go that route.
>
> Would the from-Sources-only repo information still be valuable for you
> to have?
My bad, the word "changed" in my original bug was ambiguous. I'm
interested in notifications when there are new commits to the
packaging repository - rather than changes to the packaging repository URLs.
> > This could be triggered whenever repositories are found to be different
> > at poll time, but e.g. for salsa this could be triggered by a server side hook
> > (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/server_hooks.html#create-a-global-server-hook-for-all-repositories)
> I'm not sure I follow, do you want a general webhook in salsa that
> would call out *to* vcswatch, or do you want a webhook *from* vcswatch
> to elsewhere?
I'm interested in a general webhook from vcswatch (or a something that
provides similar functionality).
For salsa repositories specifically, it may be possible to improve the
reponsiveness of vcswatch by installing a server-side hook that
notifies vcswatch whenever a salsa repository has changed.
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