1473960 - attach RSS feed of hg.m.o browser/extensions/activity-stream to slack RSS bot

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

So that we can notice when stuff lands in mozilla-central that needs to be backported, we'd like to be notified whenever something lands in browser/extensions/activity-stream.  Current experiment involves putting notifications into our slack channel.

@Standard8, rumor has it that you know how to get such an RSS feed that we could use?

Comment 1

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mercurial/Using_Mercurial/Filter_a_Mercurial_Changelog_feed_by_Pushlog_directory_paths
https://www.oxymoronical.com/blog/2013/04/Get-notifications-about-changes-to-any-directory-in-mercurial

both look relevant.  Not sure if either are in a currently usable state.

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

There used to be a site that would let you subscribe to directories, unfortunately I don't have the URL any longer, and I'm not sure it'd still be around.

There are possibly a few other options that you could use:

- Set up Herald in Phabricator to watch for changes to the directory and subscribe or notify you about those: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/book/phabricator/article/herald/ (e.g. I've done one for ESLint changes, that tell me whenever a patch related to ESLint is posted - before it lands).

This will obviously cover more patches once the switch to Phabricator is fully made (although splinter might still be around).

- There's some sort of "pulse" system that notifies whenever patches land in a repository (e.g. pulsebot), I believe there's ways you can write your own subscriber to it. Might be worth asking the releng team.