gerritbot/doc/source/installation.rst

Installation

To install Gerritbot run :

sudo python setup.py install

Configuration File

Gerritbot has two configuration files. The first configures the IRC server and Gerrit server details and is the config file whose path you pass to gerritbot when starting the bot. It should look like:

[ircbot]
nick=NICKNAME
pass=PASSWORD
server=irc.freenode.net
port=6667
server_password=SERVERPASS
channel_config=/path/to/yaml/config

[gerrit]
user=gerrit2
key=/path/to/id_rsa
host=review.example.com
port=29418

The second configures the IRC channels and the events and projects that each channel is interested in. This config file is written in yaml and should look like:

example-channel1:
    events:
      - patchset-created
      - change-merged
    projects:
      - example/project1
      - example/project2
    branches:
      - master
      - development
example-channel2:
    events:
      - change-merged
    projects:
      - example/project3
      - example/project4
    branches:
      - master

Running

To run Gerritbot $PATH/gerritbot /path/to/config. $PATH is usually something like /usr/local/bin and /path/to/config should be whatever path you have hidden the config at.