[users at bb.net] Capability system

[Dan Kegel]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Georges Racinet <gracinet at anybox.fr> wrote:
>> Now for our own sake, I will separate from our actual build definitions in a
>> git repo of its own, and see if I can make nice examples based on meta
>> buidbot and SimpleConfig use-cases.
>
> So, here it is : https://github.com/anybox/anybox.buildbot.capability
>
> As it's been said before, it's a system to declare "capabilities" on
> workers, and spawn automatically builders according to requirements or
> multiplication (build_for) directives. This is "static" because this happens
> at buildmaster startup or reconfiguration time. There's a full explanation
> at http://docs.anybox.fr/anybox.buildbot.capability/master
>...
> Also, I've taken a look at contrib/SimpleConfig.py, but its examples don't
> seem to be a good match to display the multiplication feature, because the
> build variants are based on arbitrary tags, not on versions (there's an
> example with workers having two Ubuntu versions, but no build uses both of
> them if I got it right). Those examples could be rewritten using the
> filtering requirements, but that actually makes it less simple.

We're using SimpleConfig.py; I recently ported it forward to 0.8.12.
(Our master.json is 2748 lines :-)
Its tags are not quite flexible enough, so I'm mulling improving it to
meet our current use cases.
If/when I do, maybe it'll be a better match for your capability
system, I'll see if I can fit them together.
(No promises about when :-(  )
- Dan