[Automated-testing] Structured feeds

[Tim.Bird at sony.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dmitry Vyukov 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 9:48 AM <Tim.Bird at sony.com> wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Dmitry Vyukov
> > >
> > > This is another follow up after Lyon meetings. The main discussion was
> > > mainly around email process (attestation, archival, etc):
> > >
> https://lore.kernel.org/workflows/20191030032141.6f06c00e@lwn.net/T/#t
> > >
> > > I think providing info in a structured form is the key for allowing
> > > building more tooling and automation at a reasonable price. So I
> > > discussed with CI/Gerrit people and Konstantin how the structured
> > > information can fit into the current "feeds model" and what would be
> > > the next steps for bringing it to life.
> > >
> > > Here is the outline of the idea.
> > > The current public inbox format is a git repo with refs/heads/master
> > > that contains a single file "m" in RFC822 format. We add
> > > refs/heads/json with a single file "j" that contains structured data
> > > in JSON format. 2 separate branches b/c some clients may want to fetch
> > > just one of them.
> >
> > Can you provide some idea (maybe a few examples) of the types of
> > structured data that would  be in the json branch?
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> Nobody yet tried to define exact formats. Generatelly it should expose
> info about patches, comments, test results in an easy to consume form.
> Here are examples for patchwork, git-appraise and gerrit:
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/api/patches/?order=-id
> https://github.com/google/git-appraise/tree/master/schema
> https://lore.kernel.org/workflows/87sgn0zr09.fsf@iris.silentflame.com/T/#
> m3db87b43cf5e581ba4d3a7fd5f1fbff5aea3546a
> I would expect that the format would resemble these formats to
> significant degree. But I guess we need to come up with something, try
> to use, see what's missing/needs to be improved and iterate.
> Do you have any specific recommendations or ways in which you see it
> will be consumed?

I have no recommendations.  (yet.)  :-)
I'm just trying to figure out what the proposal is about, and it's scope.
Thanks for the links.
 -- Tim