Re: Automatic announcement generation by calm

[Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>]

Am 08/01/2024 um 13:35 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps:
> On Jan  7 16:12, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> This is an experimental facility, currently only available for packages
>> deployed from the build service [1] (that is, not for self-built packages
>> uploaded with 'cygport up' via sftp)
>>
>> When the token "announce" is present for a build job (in addition to
>> "deploy"), after a successful deploy, calm will automatically generate and
>> send an announce email.
>>
>> The mail follows a similar format to that generated by "cygport announce",
>> containing a list of packages and the description, with the following
>> addition:
>>
>> * If the cygport defines the variable "ANNOUNCE", it's evaluated contents
>> will be appended to the generated mail.
>>
>> * Otherwise, if the source package contains an ANNOUNCE file [2], it's
>> contents will be appended.
>>
>> * Otherwise, if the source package contains a README or ${PN}.README file,
>> lines that look like part of a changelog, between one starting with '----
>> ${PVR}' and the next starting '----', will be extracted and appended
>>
>> (None of these seem like a particularly great way of doing things, but they
>> match some historical patterns.  As always, suggestions about improvements
>> are welcome.)
>>
>>
>> In accordance with our long-standing policy of treating maintainer email
>> addresses as private information, the mail is sent from cygwin-no-reply and
>> bcc'ed to the uploader.
>>
>>
>> For testing purposes, if the token "mock" (yes, I am running out of synonyms
>> for "test"...) is also present, the mail will be only sent to the uploader,
>> not the announce list.
>>
>>
>> [1] https://cygwin.com/packaging/build.html
>> [2] Note that this isn't currently part of the default value of CYGWIN_FILES
>> [3], so needs to be explicitly listed there to be included in the source
>> package
>> [3] https://cygwin.github.io/cygport/src_prep_cygpart.html#CYGWIN_FILES
> :+1:
>
> Unfortunately I started the OpenSSH 9.6 build before reading this here,
> but that's some great addition.
>
> Corinna
I'd also appreciate to prefix the mail with an "[ANNOUNCEMENT] " tag as 
for the mails forwarded from cygwin-announcement to cygwin before that 
was stopped, to enhance the overview in users' mailboxes.
Thomas