[Buildbot-commits] [Buildbot] #875: enhance ways of coordinating builds - flocks? (was: enhance ways of coordinating builds)

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#875: enhance ways of coordinating builds - flocks?
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Reporter:  bhearsum   |       Owner:  djmitche            
    Type:  undecided  |      Status:  new                 
Priority:  major      |   Milestone:  0.8.+               
 Version:  0.8.0      |    Keywords:  buildcoord ship-this
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Changes (by dustin):

  * milestone:  0.8.3 => 0.8.+


Comment:

 We had some discussion within Mozilla of the idea of a "flock" of builds -
 basically, all of the builds that flow from the same input to buildbot
 would have the same "flockid".

 We've got lots of support for branching builds.  For example, a 'build'
 Builder and Triggerable or Dependent can create a bunch of parallel 'test'
 builds to test the built binary.  The problem is bringing that back
 together: how do you run a build when all of those tests are complete?
 (e.g., to push the binary to test users)

 Currently, we have a BuildSet for this purpose, but that's limited to one
 simultaneously-triggered tier of builds.  As I see it, a Flock might
 encompass several BuildSets and lots of BuildRequests/Builds.

 This isn't terribly well-fleshed out, and merging of BuildRequests may
 wreak havoc.  But it's a thought.

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