Re: Automatic URLs in forgejo? (was Re: Sourceware forge experiment)

["Richard Earnshaw \(lists\) via Gdb" <gdb@sourceware.org>]

On 24/10/2024 16:29, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Mon, 2024-10-21 at 03:22 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
>> As an experiment Sourceware is now running an forgejo v9 instance at
>> https://forge.sourceware.org
>>
>> Everybody with an @sourceware.org, @cygwin.com or @gcc.gnu.org
>> address
>> can register an account (please use the same user name as your
>> account
>> name).
>>
>> The setup has disabled most "extras" (no badges, stars, issues,
>> wikis,
>> packages, timetracking, milestones, etc.). And users can only fork
>> existing repos (it has mirrors of various sourceware projects). Some
>> things haven't been setup yet (external trackers/bugzilla, incoming
>> email, ci, etc.)
>>
>> The full setup can be found in this git repository:
>> https://sourceware.org/cgit/forge/
>>
>> For now it is only open for existing maintainers/developers for
>> experimentating with a pull-request model. We can add others as long
>> as they understand this is an experiment and does not mean projects
>> are accepting patches through it. Contributions should still be sent
>> through the mailinglists.
>>
>> There is also a new mailinglist for discussion about the setup and
>> the
>> best way to create a pull-request workflow. Please subscribe if you
>> create an account and mention which project/organization you would
>> like do some experiments for. We can then add you to that
>> organization.
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/mailman/listinfo/forge
> 
> Thanks for setting this up.
> 
> How easy would it be to set up automatic URL generation in the web UI
> from regexes on the text of commit subjects/message? 
> 
> GCC has its own short notation for referring to commits, see e.g. 
> 
> https://forge.sourceware.org/gcc/gcc-mirror/commit/83abdb041426b7490e93c3f77be93148bcd94de3
> where I wrote:
> "I believe this hasn't been necessary since r15-1413-gd3878c85f331c7."
> It would be nice if the "r15-1413-gd3878c85f331c7" were to get auto-
> urlified in the web UI to
> https://forge.sourceware.org/gcc/gcc-mirror/commit/d3878c85f331c7
> 
> Similarly, in GCC we use the notation PRnnnnnn or PR component/nnnnnn
> to refer to "problem reports" in bugzilla.  Looking at e.g.
> https://forge.sourceware.org/gcc/gcc-mirror/commit/65c5bbe1c92f9c08e99d3a37c136f2ef9804a37f
> it would be nice if the "PR114423" in the subject line and the 
> "PR preprocessor/114423" in the ChangeLog fragments in the commit log
> got auto-urlified in the web UI to:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114423
> 

See the wiki page I added today for setting up bugzilla (gcc.gnu.org/wiki/ForgeExperiment).  It only works for the <component>/<id> style due to limitations in the way forgejo uses the regex groups.


> Other projects sharing the forgejo instance have other notations,
> policies, and bug tracker instances, of course.
> 
> FWIW I seem to recall seeing something like this working in the
> instance that was recently demoed at Cauldron.
> 
> Hope this is constructive; thanks again
> Dave
>