[Monotone-devel] Re: Triggers

[Koen Kooi]

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Daniel Carosone schreef:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 10:07:35AM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>> Do you want it done by crontab or through note_netsync_end()?
>>> Crontab, I'd think, or even a 'while sleep 600; ...' script run under
>>> daemontools supervision :-).  (This is how the CIA script works now,
>>> to avoid crontab obnoxiousness.)  Rather not couple the server and
>>> website that closely...
>> Does monotone provide functionality for triggers? I'd like to have
>> cia notified immediately when a rev hits the 'main' server and do
>> 'make xhtml && cp xhtml/* /path/to/website/docs/' when a rev hits
>> the org.openembedded.documentation branch.
> 
> The note_* hooks Richard was talking about are exactly these kinds of
> triggers.
> 
> An important point about these triggers is that you don't want to do
> much work directly inside of them, and that of course they run in
> the user context of the server.

Right now that isn't a problem, the the server runs under the same account as 
all the other stuff
needs to be. I get the idea that the current ciabot trigger is a bit 
overengineered and fragiles,
but I might be biased by my general dislike of python[1].

regards,

Koen


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