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Hey #nix and #nixos people!

I wrote a matrix bot for nixpkgs pull request notifications.

It‘s like the cool https//nixpk.gs/tracker.html by @qyliss, which shows you which release channels a pull request has reached.

With the bot you can subscribe and get notifications, whenever it reaches a channel instead of hammering F5 in your browser tab.

Just open a query to https://matrix.to/#/@nixpkgs-bot:maralorn.de and send "help".

Looking forward to you all stress testing it!

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maralorn
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@solene Yeah, the main issues with that are, that a) maybe your not interested in the discussion and b) you will not know when it reaches nixos-unstable.
@Solène :flan_hacker:
davidak
davidak  
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i had the idea to have a github bot that comments when a PR hit's nixos unstable and nixos stable
musicmatze :rust: :nixos:
musicmatze :rust: :nixos:  
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That is so cool!

I am testing it right now! Also thanks for sharing the code!

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maralorn
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@musicmatze Well, the code ist mostly in the proof-of-concept phase. Would be nice to separate code into different files, e.g. Currently it‘s a bit clobbered.
@musicmatze :rust: :nixos:
musicmatze :rust: :nixos:
musicmatze :rust: :nixos:  
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and it is written in #haskell ✨ 🚀

How awesome!
#haskell
Hubert Chathi
Hubert Chathi  
Oooh! A Matrix bot in Haskell! Where's the code?
Raito Bezarius
Raito Bezarius  
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@davidak I also sent a patch to @qyliss for a REST API for Nixpkgs tracker but didn't have time to redo it for acceptance.
But I wanted to build a lot of similar stuff like this, including building open data on ETA of drv X in channel Y.
@ALYSSA ALYSSA ANTIFASCISTA @davidak
maralorn
maralorn  
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@raito@davidak
I am definitely open for ideas. Feel free to reuse my code, I am also open to migrate the code to github if there is desire for extending it.
@davidak @Raito Bezarius
maralorn
maralorn  
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@davidak After some consideration: I think that would increase notification traffic for regular contributors far too much
@davidak
Charlotte Van Petegem 🏳️‍⚧️
Charlotte Van Petegem 🏳️‍⚧️  
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can you make the bot join the NixOS space? I use spaces a lot as an organizational tool, and that would help finding it easily
ALYSSA ALYSSA ANTIFASCISTA
ALYSSA ALYSSA ANTIFASCISTA  
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@raito

I was recently thinking about whether having RSS support might work better than a REST API. People could still use it programatically, but also it would be immediately useable with all the tools that already understand RSS — feed readers, email/ActivityPub gateways, etc.

@davidak@maralorn
@maralorn @davidak @Raito Bezarius
maralorn
maralorn  
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@raito@davidak I already have written other Haskell services which provide RSS feeds, so it wouldn‘t be to hard. I just wonder what kinds of feeds would the service offer?
@davidak @Raito Bezarius
maralorn
maralorn  
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@raito@davidak Ah, yeah. That makes sense. Although I am uncertain if a lot of people have an RSS flow where they don‘t find that to cumbersome.
@davidak @Raito Bezarius
Peder Bergebakken Sundt
Peder Bergebakken Sundt  
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would it be possible to have the bot subscribe to all prs by made by a GitHub user?
maralorn
maralorn  
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@pbsds It would be annoying to do it on opening a pull request, but yes it is totally possible to do it in the moment of merging it.
@Peder Bergebakken Sundt
pinpox
pinpox  
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not responding to me :(
maralorn
maralorn  
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@pinpox Sorry about that, sometimes my matrix server throws an error while trying to join a room. In this case (could not finde any remote servers which know this room.)

I made the bot manually join your query, you can use it now.
@pinpox
maralorn
maralorn  
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If you have been issues with the bot not joining your direct message, you might want to try again. A workaround for race conditions in the matrix server has been implemented.
Philipp
Philipp  
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neat! They looks really good. What could be really useful would be a feature to automatically subscribe to all prs by a user (your own fire example) and by label, so security-discuss could subscribe to all prs labeled with security.
maralorn
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@philipp The by user subscriptions have been implemented now.
@Philipp
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