[Buildbot-commits] [Buildbot] #1707: master.buildbot.status.words should include the revision number in its messages

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#1707: master.buildbot.status.words should include the revision number in its
messages
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Reporter:  gps          |       Owner:                                      
    Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                                 
Priority:  major        |   Milestone:  undecided                           
 Version:  0.8.2        |    Keywords:  irc im words status message revision
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 Right now the messages read something like 'build #113 of Platform Zardoz:
 Failure ...url... blamelist: Connery, Boorman'

 this really is not so useful as an IRC or IM message because it doesn't
 tell you what revision that build was for.  _Nobody_ normally gives a
 flying face about the _build number_ on a random build bot, that is
 irrelevant.

 I'd like to see a message such as:

 'build of r197902 on Platform Zardoz: Failure ...url... blamelist: ...'

 you could include the build# in there if you want if someone actually
 finds those useful but for the python.org buildbot, we don't.  the build#
 is in the url anyways.

 for git/hg/bzr backed builds i'd expect a hash prefix instead of a svn
 revision #, for user kicked off builds if a revision doesn't make sense,
 just say so, etc.

 I looked a bit at the buildbot/master/status/words.py and builder.py code
 but it wasn't immediately obvious to me if a revision number is already
 easily available in that part of the code so I'm filing this issue to
 document what i want in hopes that someone more familiar with the codebase
 agrees this would be good and makes it happen. :)

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