Bug#1014473: vcswatch: track identity of committers of unuploaded commits

[Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>]

Re: To Jelmer Vernooij
> Does that work? I guess we could try extracting the authors
> (committers?) into a proper json structure if that helps.
> 
> Helmut was approaching me about extracting even more fields from git,
> Maintainer, Uploaders, Homepage, updated Vcs info, debian/watch, and
> expose that for an easier feedback into the packages file without
> requiring new uploads. That will likely happen shortly. (Mentioning
> that here since it seems similar.)

Fwiw, that has happened at DebConf, there is now new fields
"controlfile" and "upstream_metadata" in the json:

  {
    "browser": "https://salsa.debian.org/debian/kanyremote";,
    "vcslog": "commit 2461c1171fc9103e2fd9ec946208fe5e1bc2deb7\nAuthor: Philipp Huebner <debalance@debian.org>\n
Date:   Sat May 28 00:32:06 2022 +0200\n\n    Updated years in debian/copyright\n\ncommit a72ff16979f78545d0eb83
09370e47782536e4fd\nAuthor: Debian Janitor <janitor@jelmer.uk>\nDate:   Fri Sep 24 05:04:54 2021 +0000\n\n    Re
move obsolete field Name from debian/upstream/metadata (already present in machine-readable debian/copyright).\n
    \n    Changes-By: lintian-brush\n\ncommit 77bcda14a9bc556ecc7d5029ddf82282ff0c3303\nAuthor: Debian Janitor <
janitor@jelmer.uk>\nDate:   Fri Sep 24 05:04:43 2021 +0000\n\n    Trim trailing whitespace.\n    \n    Changes-B
y: lintian-brush\n    Fixes: lintian: trailing-whitespace\n    See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/trailin
g-whitespace.html",
    "ci_url": "https://salsa.debian.org/debian/kanyremote/-/pipelines";,
    "last_scan": "2022-08-04 18:18:12+00",
    "issues": null,
    "url": "https://salsa.debian.org/debian/kanyremote.git";,
    "valid_checkout": 1,
    "changelog_version": "8.1-1.2",
    "watchfile": "version=4\nhttps://sf.net/anyremote/kanyremote-(.*)\\.tar\\.gz",
    "package": "kanyremote",
    "changelog_distribution": "UNRELEASED",
    "branch": "master",
    "merge_requests": 1,
    "vcs": "Git",
    "dumb_http": null,
    "controlfile": "Source: kanyremote\nSection: kde\nPriority: optional\nMaintainer: Philipp Huebner <debalance
@debian.org>\nBuild-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-python, python3-all\nStandards-Version: 4.5.1\nRules-Re
quires-Root: no\nHomepage: http://anyremote.sourceforge.net\nVcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/kanyremote
.git\nVcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/kanyremote\n\nPackage: kanyremote\nArchitecture: all\nDepends
: ${misc:Depends},\n         ${python3:Depends},\n         anyremote (>= 6.7),\n         python3-bluez (>= 0.9.1
),\n         python3-pyqt5\nRecommends: bluez\nDescription: KDE frontend for anyRemote\n kAnyRemote package is K
DE GUI frontend for anyRemote.\n (http://anyremote.sourceforge.net/). The overall goal of this project is to\n p
rovide remote control service on Linux through Bluetooth, InfraRed, Wi-Fi\n or TCP/IP connection.",
    "edited_at": null,
    "edited_by": null,
    "hash": "2461c1171fc9103e2fd9ec946208fe5e1bc2deb7",
    "debian_dir": 1,
    "changelog": "kanyremote (8.1-1.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium\n\n  * Trim trailing whitespace.\n  * Remove o
bsolete field Name from debian/upstream/metadata (already present in\n    machine-readable debian/copyright).\n\
n -- Debian Janitor <janitor@jelmer.uk>  Fri, 24 Sep 2021 05:04:43 -0000",
    "next_scan": "2022-08-12 12:11:00+00",
    "commits": 3,
    "package_version": "8.1-1.1",
    "ci_status": null,
    "status": "NEW",
    "upstream_metadata": "Bug-Database: https://sourceforge.net/p/anyremote/discussion/\nBug-Submit: https://sourceforge.net/p/anyremote/discussion/\nChangelog: https://sourceforge.net/p/anyremote/code/HEAD/tree/kanyremote/trunk/ChangeLog\nRepository: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/anyremote/code/kanyremote/trunk\nRepository-Browse: https://sourceforge.net/p/anyremote/code/HEAD/tree/kanyremote/\nRegistration: https://sourceforge.net/user/registration\nContact: anyremote@mail.ru\nDocumentation: http://anyremote.sourceforge.net/docs.html\nFAQ: http://anyremote.sourceforge.net/faq.html";,
    "avatar": "https://salsa.debian.org/uploads/-/system/project/avatar/1272/anyremote.png";,
    "tag": "debian/8.1-1.1",
    "error": null
  },

Christoph