Re: [pr-preview] announcement

I'd like to encourage folks to use this tool. We've been using it for
the Payment Request API for a few weeks and it's great.

A better example of what it actually does:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/pr-preview/heycam/webidl/53cbeef...tobie:785a7cd.html

(note that in Tobie's example, it adds two links - Preview | Diff -
at the bottom of the first comment). That's how you access the
previews.


On March 7, 2017 at 12:39:09 PM, Tobie Langel (tobie@codespeaks.com) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wrote a little tool earlier this year to help me cope with reviewing
> WebIDL pull requests.
>
> Interest from a few people convinced me to spend a bit of time turning
> it into a GitHub integration[1], which I did:
>
> https://github.com/tobie/pr-preview
>
> Whenever there's a new PR (or activity on an existing one) it generates
> the proposed spec (which can use either Bikeshed or Respec), an HTML
> diff of it, and adds links to both to the bottom of the PR.
>
> See for example:
> https://github.com/heycam/webidl/pull/323#issue-210636452
>
> The code's open-source. The integration is running on free Heroku
> hardware and an AWS S3 bucket, so the costs are rather contained for now
> and should hopefully stay so.
>
> WHATWG and WICG have started to use it and other WG are welcome to do so
> too.
>
> I've designed the integration so it's easy for an org to do a blanket
> install (it's a one click install [2]) and for individual repositories
> to op-in to by adding a config file[3] to their repo. There's even a
> little tool to help you create and validate your config file and turn it
> into a PR [4].
>
> This wouldn't have been possible without the help of Dom (which handled
> all my code change request for the HTML diff), Bikeshed's build service
> (which plinss maintains), ReSpec's build service and HTML diff (both
> also maintained by Dom). Thanks also to the guinea pigs who helped test
> this and Google who sponsored the original project.
>
> Hope you find it useful.
>
> Best,
>
> --tobie
>
> ---
> [1]: GitHub integrations are a new feature GH is beta testing. It allows
> turning bot apps into one-click install handling key exchanges on your
> behalf which is rather nice.
> [2]: https://github.com/integration/pr-preview
> [3]: https://github.com/tobie/pr-preview#configuration-file
> [4]: https://tobie.github.io/pr-preview/config.html
>
>

Received on Tuesday, 7 March 2017 01:44:59 UTC