Gerritbot

Installation

To install gerritbot:

• install prerequisites:

  sudo apt-get install python getmail4 procmail
  

• create a user gerritbot and log in as it:

  sudo useradd -m gerritbot -s /bin/false
  sudo bash
  sudo gerritbot
  

• get the source:

  git clone http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/contrib/dev-tools
  

• link the files in the user root:

  export HOME=/home/gerritbot
  mkdir ~/.ssh
  ln -s ~/dev-tools/gerritbot/.ssh/config -t .ssh
  mkdir ~/.getmail
  ln -s ~/dev-tools/gerritbot/getmailrc -t .getmail
  ln -s ~/dev-tools/gerritbot/.procmailrc
  ln -s ~/dev-tools/gerritbot/.muttrc #optional
  

• add the private key for gerrit access to ~/.ssh/id_rsa:

  • if the key was lost, a new one needs to be uploaded to gerrit
  • the OpenID for it is: https://launchpad.net/~r-gerrit-0
  • the OpenID is bound to gerrit@libreoffice.org

• set the password for gerrit@libreoffice.org in .getmail/getmailrc

• install the crontab:

  crontab ~/dev-tools/gerritbot/crontab.txt
  

• done

Start & Enable

crontab ~/dev-tools/gerritbot/crontab.txt

Stop & Disable

sudo gerritbot
crontab -r

Responsible

Bjoern Michaelsen <bjoern.michaelsen@canonical.com>