[Buildbot-commits] [Buildbot] #2359: Support extracting steps from annotated logs

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#2359: Support extracting steps from annotated logs
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Reporter:  dank         |      Owner:
    Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
Priority:  minor        |  Milestone:  undecided
 Version:  master       |   Keywords:
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 In general, putting too much knowledge about how builds are
 done into buildbot config files is considered harmful because
 it makes it hard for non-buildbot-admins to update or test the
 build procedure used by buildbot.

 One approach to dealing with this is to have buildbot run a single
 step that just runs a script that is under full control of the
 developers (as opposed to buildbot admins).  That's good, but
 then you lose visibility into build steps, and the waterfall is
 a bit more opaque.

 Chromium currently does this, and solves the big-opaque-single-step-
 waterfall problem by parsing the logfile and synthesizing steps from
 annotations inserted into the log by the build script.

 See
 http://lackingrhoticity.blogspot.com/2011/08/fixing-trouble-with-
 buildbot.html
 for discussion, and code and tests at
 http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/tools/build/scripts/master/chromium_step.py
 http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/tools/build/scripts/master/unittests/annotator_test.py

 This seems like a Good Idea.  Any chance it could be merged into
 buildbot proper?

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