Requirments for alternative git interfaces

[rstub]

What would be the requirements for an alternative git interface like https://codeberg.org to be supported in addition to GitHub and GitLab?

[llrs]

I think this is more a r-universe question than a r-multiverse question: AFAIK r-multiverse doesn't limit that.
I think that in principle any git repository can work with r-universe (the Bioconductor project hosted at git.bioconductor.org works with r-universe too).
Correction: it needs to have something to detect that a package is released

[rstub]

Thanks. The need for releases makes sense indeed. Codeberg (sorry for the typo ...) uses Forgejo (a clone of Gitea) which for example provides a REST API to query releases, c.f. https://codeberg.org/api/swagger#/repository/repoListReleases. Would that help?

[wlandau]

I agree with @llrs: it's mostly an R-universe issue, but also the platform needs to support full releases (rather than just tags). Along those lines, it would have been nice to support Bitbucket, but they only offer Git tags.

[rstub]

Thanks, I have now found r-universe-org/help#379 were the analogous question for GitLab has been discussed.

[defuneste]

Could this be reopened?

Release is supported in codeberg. Since codeberg is, afaik, not supported in `{devtools} (and others), R multiverse could be interesting here.

On the technical side: my limited understanding is that those functions need to be updated (and their respective tests and functions):

• get_repo_file()
• assert_release_exists()

I am unclear of what is the exported file(s?) needed for get_repo_file(). I will test a bit with "https://gitlab.com/wlandau/test" and see if understand it a bit more with that example. It looks similar than this API call: https://codeberg.org/api/swagger#/repository/repoGetRawFile .

Did I miss other codes that need to be changed for making the technical part works?

Would something like that be an option for assert_release_* (using https://codeberg.org/api/swagger#/repository/repoListReleases)? :

assert_release_codeberg <- function(url) {
  parsed_url <- url_parse(url)
  # here I assumed release path it seems it is repo path
  url_path <- unlist(strsplit(parsed_url[["path"]], "/"))
  owner <- url_path[2]
  repo <- url_path[3]
  endpoint <- sprintf(
    "https://codeberg.org/api/v1/repos/%s/%s/releases",
    owner,
    repo
  )
  releases <- try(
    suppressWarnings(
    jsonlite::stream_in(
        con = gzcon(url(endpoint)),
        simplifyVector = TRUE,
        simplifyDataFrame = TRUE
      )
    ),
    silent = TRUE
  )
  if (inherits(releases, "try-error")) {
    return(try_message(releases))
  }
  if (!nrow(releases) || !any(!releases$prerelease)) {
    return(no_release_message(url))
  }
}

Thanks!

[defuneste]

Codeberg and Bitbucket seem supported by R-universe?

@jeroen pointed me to https://github.com/r-universe-org/sync/blob/6511d1b279ecf50fe013ee48744e549246907578/R/monorepos.R#L682-L697, which shows that apparently support for releases in R-universe only extends to GitHub and GitLab. But Codeberg itself does indeed support releases.

Thanks this is helpful, I am still unpacking the code on R-multiverse side (https://github.com/defuneste/multiverse.internals/blob/codeberg-assert/R/assert_release_exists.R). I was planning to add specific tests before changing more codes here. Should instead start by I submiting a PR adding a version of https://github.com/r-universe-org/sync/blob/6511d1b279ecf50fe013ee48744e549246907578/R/monorepos.R#L635C1-L646 for codeberg? And start from here what is needed?

[wlandau]

Thanks for offering to help. Yes, support in R-universe is the place to start.

[defuneste]

@wlandau Thanks! I will look into it. Just to clarify my goal is to have package from codeberg in a R-multiverse registries (that can be hosted by GH or GitLab) not to have a registy "managed" by codeberg (maybe later!).

[noamross]

OK folks I promised Jeroen that if no one took up this issue by the end of the month I would do it: r-universe-org/help#642

[defuneste]

@noamross I started something here -> r-universe-org/sync@769eed5

[jeroen]

We have merged r-universe-org/sync#6. Would be great if one of the codeberg users could test it.

[wlandau]

Added a test in https://github.com/wlandau/wlandau.r-universe.dev/blob/c725d22d0e22e218c4b21c45a130642167b37c7f/packages.json#L35-L39

[wlandau]

The test worked: https://wlandau.r-universe.dev/test.

[wlandau]

Adding Codeberg support for R-multiverse at r-multiverse/multiverse.internals#100 and r-multiverse/r-multiverse.github.io#77.

[wlandau]

Done