[Buildbot-commits] buildbot ChangeLog,1.527,1.528 NEWS,1.45,1.46

[Brian Warner]

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Revision: arch at buildbot.sf.net--2004/buildbot--dev--0--patch-368
Creator:  Brian Warner <warner at lothar.com>

update NEWS file a little bit


Index: ChangeLog
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RCS file: /cvsroot/buildbot/buildbot/ChangeLog,v
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+2005-10-23  Brian Warner  <warner at lothar.com>
+
+	* NEWS: update
+
 2005-10-22  Brian Warner  <warner at lothar.com>
 
 	* buildbot/status/html.py (HtmlResource): incorporate valid-HTML

Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/buildbot/buildbot/NEWS,v
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 Instructions for developers who want to use 'try' (and the configuration
 changes necessary to enable its use) are in the user's manual.
 
+** Build-On-Branch
+
+When suitably configured, the buildbot can be used to build trees from a
+variety of related branches. You can set up Schedulers to build a tree using
+whichever branch was last changed, or users can request builds of specific
+branches through IRC, the web page, or the CLI 'buildbot force' subcommand.
+
+The IRC 'force' command now takes --branch and --revision arguments (not that
+they always make sense). Likewise the HTML 'force build' button now has an
+input field for branch and revision. Your build's source-checkout step must
+be suitably configured to support this: for SVN it involves giving both a
+base URL and a default branch. Other VC systems are configured differently.
+
+** Multiple slaves per Builder
+
+You can now attach multiple buildslaves to each Builder. This can provide
+redundancy or load-balancing among many machines equally capable of running
+the build. To use this, define a key in the Builder specification dictionary
+named 'slavenames' with a list of buildslave names (instead of the usual
+'slavename' that contains just a single slavename).
+
+** minor new features
+
+The IRC and email status-reporting facilities now provide more specific URLs
+for particular builds, in addition to the generic buildmaster home page. The
+HTML per-build page now has more information.
+
+The Twisted-specific test classes have been modified to match the argument
+syntax preferred by Trial as of Twisted-2.1.0 and newer. The generic trial
+steps are still suitable for the Trial that comes with older versions of
+Twisted, but may produce deprecation warnings or errors when used with the
+latest Trial.
+
+** bugs fixed
+
+DNotify, used by the maildir-watching ChangeSources, had problems on some
+64-bit systems relating to signed-vs-unsigned constants and the DN_MULTISHOT
+flag. A workaround was provided by Brad Hards.
+
+The web status page should now be valid XHTML, thanks to a patch by Brad
+Hards. The charset parameter is specified to be UTF-8, so VC comments,
+builder names, etc, should probably all be in UTF-8 to be displayed properly.
+
+** creeping version dependencies
+
+The IRC 'force build' command requires python2.3 (for the shlex.split
+function).
 
 
 * Release 0.6.6 (23 May 2005)