First git based automated build

[Geert Janssens]

On 13-08-12 00:47, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
> Geert, nice work. Glad we have that working.  One step closer.
The only thing that still has to happen here is to activate git based 
builds in daily_build.bat. Is it ok if I do so (only for trunk obviously) ?
> John, I see only two reasonable options, github or code.gnucash.org. I think both sf and gnome are non starters. Github is an option because some devs are already using it. I don't know if it can provide all the hooks we want, such as port knockers to kick off updates of web servers and such.
I found two plugins on Github [1] I consider useful in this respect:
- Mail: this plugin sends a mail to one or more e-mail addresses of 
choice on each push to the repo. This could possibly replace the commit 
hooks that trigger mails to gnucash-changes and gnucash-patches. The 
mail format is different from the mails we currently send, but 
sufficient in my personal opinion. I'll attach an example so others can 
have a look as well.
- WebHook URLs: a generic plugin that will hit a chosen URL with a POST 
request. The post payload is json coded information on the commits that 
were pushed. We could set this up to trigger a service on 
code.gnucash.org, which can then decide to do whatever, including 
sending e-mails on mailing lists, kicking off a webserver update,... The 
public IP's used by GitHub for this Web trigger are published, so the 
risk of anyone spoofing the trigger is limited (no I'm not a security 
expert).

All the other plugins are written to integrate with loads of other 
public services, both social or dev related. I don't think they will be 
of much help for our current config.

Geert

[1] https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/admin/hooks
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