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= synkamatic = Synkamatic helps to automate the syncing of changes between mirrored Mozilla hg and github repositories == How it Works == Synkamatic is a semi-automatic bridge between subsets of the mozilla-central mercurial repository, http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central, and related projects on github, https://github.com/ . Synkamatic listens to pulse (http://pulse.mozilla.org/) messages using the MozillaPulse python library: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MozillaPulse . Commits to mozilla-central trigger pulse messages which synkamatic clients listen to. Each implementor of the `Synkamatic` API corresponds to a github repository. A daemon github "user" clones the repository of each of the active implementors. Each implementor has a set of paths in mozilla-central. If the implementor hears a pulse message where `affected_files` (see https://github.com/jonallengriffin/synkamatic/blob/master/tests/example_hg_pulse_message.json ), are a subpath (or a match) to its paths, the implementor will apply the diff given by the 'url' field in the pulse message to its copy of the github repository and then issue a pull request to the canonical repository using the github API: http://developer.github.com/ . The pull request will contain the mozilla-central commit message, a link to the mozilla-central changeset, and links to the relevent bugs. One branch per mozilla-central changeset so that the pull requests are atomic to that commit. The owners of the github repository may then review the pull request and merge it in at their discretion. Synkamatic can also convert github changes to bugzilla (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/) issues with patches to be reviewed. Synkamatic listens to POST requests sent via github's post-receive-hooks: http://help.github.com/post-receive-hooks/ . This must be configured by the github repository administrator. (Alternatively, we could poll for changes, but IMHO an opt-in here is probably fine.) Using the bugzilla REST API, https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:REST_API, the information from github's JSON POST request is translated into a new bug with the reviewer and others CCed. The diff is applied to an updated mozilla-central try and, on success, a patch is posted to the bug for review. Additionally, the bugzilla autoland system (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Build:Autoland) is used to automatically test the patch on the try server, https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/TryServer . The patch may then be landed assuming all is well. == Semi-automatic vs. Automatic == Sykamatic does most of the hard work such that the final decision to push to github or mozilla-central is as little work as possible. There is, however, a human at each end that has to do the approving and final push (pressing "Merge pull request" on github or applying the patch and pushing to m-c). This gives a safety net in case things go wrong. Alternative, we can reconsider this and make one or both ways fully automatic if people are generally happy with the approach. == Differences in Paths == Since the commits on both sides are translated into diffs and applied as patches, this gives us large flexibility to version each side differently. For instance, https://github.com/mozilla/mozbase/tree/master/mozdevice/mozdevice contains an __init__.py file whereas http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/build/mobile/ by design. == Reference == Github pull requests: http://developer.github.com/v3/pulls/ Python github client library: https://github.com/ask/python-github2 (for version 2, github is up to version 3 of its API) There's a github API v3 lib at http://vincent-jacques.net/PyGithub. Autoland: * https://wiki.mozilla.org/Build:Autoland * https://wiki.mozilla.org/BugzillaAutoLanding Autoland will be able to land on branches directly instead of try: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657828 ---- https://github.com/jonallengriffin/synkamatic
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