Re: easiest way to help releases: adopt patchy

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 01:46:44PM +0000, James wrote:
> > If somebody else could
> > take over Patchy -- even if only the staging stuff, not the new
> > patches -- that would free up time I could spend solving
> > release-critical bugs.  If somebody could handle the new patches
> > as well, that would be even better.
> 
> I can do that, I assume it was pretty much what I was doing with the
> early itteration of whatever script was on your
> 
> https://github.com/gperciva/lilypond-extra  site.
> 
> I'm not able to do any python tweaking but I can run stuff and check
> things like I used to do.
> 
> Let me know and if there are any specific instructions I need to set up.

Start by running lilypond-patchy-staging.py.  You'll need to tweak
the config file so it emails you instead of me.  Once you've run
it a few times manually and had it work, stick it in a cronjob.

Whenever it breaks, find out why, deal with the commits, etc.

Cheers,
- Graham