Re: [boost] Tools to manage multiple repositories effectively?

Subject: Re: [boost] Tools to manage multiple repositories effectively?
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-10-09 17:35:50

James E. King III wrote:

> Hello, I am looking for tools that would allow me to create a portal 
> and/or monitor the following properties of boost repositories.  I am in 
> the CMT and at least one fix that was in develop never made it into master 
> for the 1.68.0 release, so I want to be able to see, at a glance, 
> information about the boost repositories I care about in one place.  There 
> are about 20 repositories I regularly participate in now so a portal to 
> show what I need to worry about would be useful.
>
> 1. How far behind is master (with respect to develop)?
>
> This would help identify which repositories are behind develop.  Useful 
> for ensuring things get into a release.

What I did recently to track develop/master may be of interest:

https://travis-ci.org/pdimov/merge-reminder

This is an extraordinary simple Travis script that is nevertheless quite 
useful:

https://github.com/pdimov/merge-reminder/blob/master/.travis.yml

You just add a Travis cron job and are good to go.