Re: Automatically building packages affected by submitted patches

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Hey Chris,

> In short, following on from some previous emails about Patchwork [1] and
> tracking and inspecting how Guix changes over time [2], I've got to the
> point where I have a very rough setup for building packages changed by
> patches sent to the guix-patches mailing list.

This is great!

> With the goal of displaying a check in Patchwork about the
> build status of the affected packages, I need to compare what's been
> build by my Cuirass instance, with what https://ci.guix.info/ has
> built. To do this, my current plan is to have the Guix Data Service
> monitor a number of Cuirass instances somehow, extract information from
> them and store it.

Would it not make sense to have the build farm perform the builds
instead of having a separate Cuirass instance?

>  - Looks at patch series in the Patchwork database that have been
>    processed through the patchwork-test-series job in Laminar.

Is the Laminar job something that could become part of Cuirass itself?

--
Ricardo