perceval-public-inbox

perceval-public-inbox

Perceval backend for public-inbox repositories.

Backends

The backend currently managed by this package support the next repository:

• public-inbox

Requirements

• Python >= 3.9

You will also need some other libraries for running the tool, you can find the whole list of dependencies in pyproject.toml file.

Installation

There are several ways to install perceval-public-inbox on your system: packages or source code using Poetry or pip.

PyPI

perceval-public-inbox can be installed using pip, a tool for installing Python packages. To do it, run the next command:

$ pip install perceval-public-inbox

Source code

To install from the source code you will need to clone the repository first:

$ git clone https://github.com/bitergia-analytics/grimoirelab-perceval-public-inbox
$ cd grimoirelab-perceval-public-inbox

Then use pip or Poetry to install the package along with its dependencies.

Pip

To install the package from local directory run the following command:

$ pip install .

In case you are a developer, you should install perceval-public-inbox in editable mode:

$ pip install -e .

Poetry

We use poetry for dependency management and packaging. You can install it following its documentation. Once you have installed it, you can install perceval-public-inbox and the dependencies in a project isolated environment using:

$ poetry install

To spaw a new shell within the virtual environment use:

$ poetry shell

Example

Public Inbox

Download the mirror repositories from any public-inbox archive. For example, for the case of the Linux Kernel there are 14 repositories. You can group all the repositories into a single repository using the git alternates mechanism.

Finally, run perceval with the mailing-list URL and the directory with the repository. For example:

$ perceval public_inbox https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ /tmp/lkml.git

License

Licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL), version 3 or later.