[core-workflow] Longer term idea: consider Rust's homu for CPython merge gating

[Nick Coghlan]

On 1 January 2016 at 06:21, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the link! For those that didn't look at the link, Homu is
> actually written in Python and not Rust (the website for the project is
> what's written in Rust).
>
> Berker has actually said he is beginning to look into writing a bot for our
> needs so he might be interested in this.
>
> A quick perusal suggests it probably needs to be modified to understand
> supporting multiple branches. I also don't know if it supports the
> fast-forwarding/rebasing commits we want, but I doubt that would be
> difficult to add. It probably also needs to grow an extension system somehow
> to support custom NEWS entries for us.

Which reminds me, Amber Brown recently wrote a NEWS file generator
based on the file-per-issue model, later assembled into a NEWS file
section as part of the project's release process:
https://github.com/hawkowl/towncrier

It's aimed more at projects with a simple linear release history
rather than CPython's branching sprawl, though.

Cheers,
Nick.

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