[users at bb.net] Trigger build via tag on old revision?

[Ulrich Teichert]

HI John,

>Thank you Uli, for your detailed reply.

My pleasure.

>I think I understand most of what you said, except for one part:

>You wrote:
>> - configure a worker which will periodically check for a new tag and build it
>
>Do you mean set this up outside of buildbot?

No

>Or do you mean set up a periodic scheduler, which triggers a special
>build, and one of the steps in that build would be to check for tags
>and then perform subsequent steps to do the work for any new tags
>found (and track state of which were already built previously, etc.)?

Yes, something like that ;-) Perhaps the periodic building could be left out
and just setting up a force-builder for it, as creating a tag is mostly done by hand,
but that depends on your setup, of course,

HTH,
Uli


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