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-# gerrit-queue
-
-This daemon automatically rebases and submits changesets from a Gerrit
-instance, ensuring they still pass CI.
-
-In a usual gerrit setup with a linear master history, different developers
-await CI feedback on a rebased changeset, then one clicks submit, and
-effectively makes everybody else rebase again. `gerrit-queue` is meant to
-remove these races to master.
-
-Developers can set the `Autosubmit` label to `+1` on all changesets in a series,
-and if all preconditions on are met ("submittable" in gerrit speech, this
-usually means passing CI and passing Code Review), `gerrit-queue` takes care of
-rebasing and submitting it to master
-
-## How it works
-Gerrit only knows about Changesets (and some relations to other changesets),
-but usually developers think in terms of multiple changesets.
-
-### Fetching changesets
-`gerrit-queue` fetches all changesets from gerrit, and tries to identify these
-chains of changesets. We call them `Series`. All changesets need to have strict
-parent/child relationships to be detected (so if only half of the stack gets
-rebased by the Gerrit Web interface, these are considered individual series.
-
-Series are sorted by the number of changesets in them. This ensures longer
-series are merged faster, and less rebases are triggered. In the future, this
-might be extended to other metrics.
-
-### Submitting changesets
-The submitqueue has a Trigger() function, which gets periodically executed.
-
-It can keep a reference to one single serie across multiple runs. This is
-necessary if it previously rebased one serie to current HEAD and needs to wait
-some time until CI feedback is there. If it wouldn't keep that state, it would
-pick another series (with +1 from CI) and trigger a rebase on that one, so
-depending on CI run times and trigger intervals, if not keepig this information
-it'd end up rebasing all unrebased changesets on the same HEAD, and then just
-pick one, instead of waiting for the one to finish.
-
-The Trigger() function first instructs the gerrit client to fetch changesets
-and assemble series.
-If there is a `wipSerie` from a previous run, we check if it can still be found
-in the newly assembled list of series (it still needs to contain the same
-number of series. Commit IDs may differ, because the code doesn't reassemble a
-`wipSerie` after scheduling a rebase.
-If the `wipSerie` could be refreshed, we update the pointer with the newly
-assembled series. If we couldn't find it, we drop it.
-
-Now, we enter the main for loop. The first half of the loop checks various
-conditions of the current `wipSerie`, and if successful, does the submit
-("Submit phase"), the second half will pick a suitable new `wipSerie`, and
-potentially do a rebase ("Pick phase").
-
-#### Submit phase
-We check if there is an existing `wipSerie`. If there isn't, we immediately go to
-the "pick" phase.
-
-The `wipSerie` still needs to be rebased on `HEAD` (otherwise, the submit queue
-advanced outside of gerrit), and should not fail CI (logical merge conflict) -
-otherwise we discard it, and continue with the picking phase.
-
-If the `wipSerie` still contains a changeset awaiting CI feedback, we `return`
-from the `Trigger()` function (and go back to sleep).
-
-If the changeset is "submittable" in gerrit speech, and has the necessary
-submit queue tag set, we submit it.
-
-#### Pick phase
-The pick phase finds a new `wipSerie`. It'll first try to find one that already
-is rebased on the current `HEAD` (so the loop can just continue, and the next
-submit phase simply submit), and otherwise fall back to a not-yet-rebased
-serie. Because the rebase mandates waiting for CI, the code `return`s the
-`Trigger()` function, so it'll be called again after waiting some time.
-
-## Compile and Run
-```sh
-go generate
-GERRIT_PASSWORD=mypassword go run main.go --url https://gerrit.mydomain.com --username myuser --project myproject
-```
+depot
+=====
+
+[![Build status](https://badge.buildkite.com/016bff4b8ae2704a3bbbb0a250784e6692007c582983b6dea7.svg?branch=canon)](https://buildkite.com/tvl/depot)
+
+This repository is the [monorepo][] for the community around [The
+Virus Lounge][tvl], containing our personal tools and infrastructure.
+Everything in here is built using [Nix][].
+
+A large portion of the software here is very self-referential, meaning that it
+exists to sustain the operation of the repository. This is the case because we
+partially see this as [an experiment][] in tooling for monorepos.
+
+# Highlights
+
+## Services
+
+* Source code is available primarily through Sourcegraph on
+  [cs.tvl.fyi](https://cs.tvl.fyi), where it is searchable and even semantically
+  indexed. A lower-tech view of the repository is also available via cgit on
+  [code.tvl.fyi](https://code.tvl.fyi).
+
+  The repository can be cloned using `git` from `https://cl.tvl.fyi/depot`.
+
+* All code in the depot, with the exception of code that is checked in to
+  individual `//users` folders, needs to be reviewed. We use Gerrit on
+  [cl.tvl.fyi](https://cl.tvl.fyi) for this.
+
+* Issues are tracked via our own issue tracker on
+  [b.tvl.fyi](https://b.tvl.fyi). Its source code lives at
+  [`//web/panettone/`][panettone].
+
+* Smaller todo-list entries which do not warrant a separate issue are listed at
+  [todo.tvl.fyi](https://todo.tvl.fyi).
+
+* We use Buildkite for CI. Recent builds are listed on
+  [tvl.fyi/builds](https://tvl.fyi/builds) and pipelines are configured
+  dynamically via
+  [`//ops/pipelines`](https://cs.tvl.fyi/depot/-/tree/ops/pipelines).
+
+* A search service that makes TVL services available via textual
+  shortcuts is available: [atward](https://at.tvl.fyi)
+
+All services that we host are deployed on NixOS machines that we manage. Their
+configuration is tracked in `//ops/{modules,machines}`.
+
+## Nix
+
+* [`//nix/readTree`](https://cs.tvl.fyi/depot/-/blob/nix/readTree/README.md)
+  contains the Nix code which automatically registers projects in our Nix
+  attribute hierarchy based on their in-tree location
+* `//nix/yants` contains **Y**et **A**nother **N**ix **T**ype **S**ystem, which
+  we use for a variety of things throughout the repository
+* `//nix/buildGo` implements a Nix library that can build Go software in the
+  style of Bazel's `rules_go`. Go programs in this repository are built using
+  this library.
+* `//nix/buildLisp` implements a Nix library that can build Common Lisp
+  software. Currently only SBCL is supported. Lisp programs in this repository
+  are built using this library.
+* `//web/bubblegum` contains a CGI-based web framework written in Nix.
+* `//nix/nint`: A shebang-compatible interpreter wrapper for Nix.
+* `//tvix` contains initial work towards a modular architecture for Nix.
+* `//third_party/nix` contains [our fork][tvix] of the Nix package manager.
+
+We have a variety of other tools and libraries in the `//nix` folder which may
+be of interest.
+
+## Packages / Libraries
+
+* `//net/alcoholic_jwt` contains an easy-to-use JWT-validation library for Rust
+* `//net/crimp` contains a high-level HTTP client using cURL for Rust
+* `//tools/emacs-pkgs` contains various useful Emacs libraries, for example:
+  * `dottime.el` provides [dottime][] in the Emacs modeline
+  * `nix-util.el` provides editing utilities for Nix files
+  * `term-switcher.el` is an ivy-function for switching between vterm buffers
+  * `tvl.el` provides helper functions for interacting with the TVL monorepo
+* `//lisp/klatre` provides a grab-bag utility library for Common Lisp
+
+## User packages
+
+Contributors to the repository have user directories under
+[`//users`](https://cs.tvl.fyi/depot@canon/-/tree/users), which can be used for
+personal or experimental code that does not require review.
+
+Some examples:
+
+* `//users/tazjin/homepage` && `//users/tazjin/blog`: A Nix-based static site
+  generator which generates the web page and Atom feed for
+  [tazj.in](https://tazj.in)
+* `//users/grfn/xanthous`: A (WIP) TUI RPG, written in Haskell.
+* `//users/tazjin/emacs`: tazjin's Emacs & EXWM configuration
+* `//users/tazjin/finito`: A persistent finite-state machine library for Rust.
+
+# Licensing
+
+Unless otherwise stated in a subdirectory, all code is licensed under the MIT
+license. See [LICENSE](./LICENSE) for details.
+
+# Contributing
+
+If you'd like to contribute to any of the tools in here, please check out the
+[contribution guidelines](./docs/CONTRIBUTING.md) and our [code of
+conduct](./docs/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
+
+IRC users can find us in [`#tvl`][tvl-irc] on [hackint][], which is also
+reachable [via XMPP][hackint-xmpp] at [`#tvl@irc.hackint.org`][tvl-xmpp] (sic!).
+
+Hackint also provide a [web chat][tvl-webchat].
+
+[monorepo]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monorepo
+[tvl]: https://tvl.fyi
+[Nix]: https://nixos.org/nix
+[an experiment]: https://tvl.fyi/monorepo-doc
+[panettone]: https://cs.tvl.fyi/depot@canon/-/tree/web/panettone
+[tvix]: https://cs.tvl.fyi/depot/-/blob/third_party/nix/README.md
+[dottime]: https://dotti.me
+[tvl-irc]: ircs://irc.hackint.org:6697/#tvl
+[hackint]: https://hackint.org/
+[hackint-xmpp]: https://hackint.org/transport/xmpp
+[tvl-xmpp]: xmpp:#tvl@irc.hackint.org?join
+[tvl-webchat]: https://webirc.hackint.org/#ircs://irc.hackint.org/#tvl