[Buildbot-commits] [SPAM] [Buildbot] #875: enhance ways of coordinating builds

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#875: enhance ways of coordinating builds
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Reporter:  bhearsum   |       Owner:  djmitche
    Type:  undecided  |      Status:  new     
Priority:  major      |   Milestone:  0.8.1   
 Version:  0.8.0      |    Keywords:          
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 Blurb from meeting notes:
 Similar to the multi-project / multi-repository support, we need more
 expressive tools to describe the relationship of builds to one
 another.  We have Dependent and Triggerable schedulers, but these
 offer limited flexibility.  There have been discussions of describing
 builds as DAGs, or inventing a domain-specific language for the
 purpose.

 Murali brought up the idea of providing Buildbot configuration in some
 structured format other than Python, giving the relationship between
 builds that are required.  He also mentioned putting a web-based,
 drag-and-drop GUI on top of this format.  I suggested that it's
 already quite possible for users to generate Buildbot configuration
 from structured data (by parsing that data in the master.cfg).  I also
 said that a configuration GUI would be interesting, but will not be a
 part of Buildbot, because it would of necessity reduce the flexibility
 of the configuration.  There are already some configuration-generation
 apps out there (notably Loki), and certainly within more narrow
 environments it may even make business sense to provide such a
 frontend.

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