[Buildbot-devel] Various BuildBot questions

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

On Thursday 09 September 2004 08:44 pm, Brian Warner wrote:
 > For now, edit buildbot.status.html.StatusResourceBuilder.getChild to get
 > rid of the 'if path == "force"' test. You'll also want to comment out the
 > part in .body which appends the "force build" HTML to the per-builder
 > page.

And then I'd need to have something for the IRC bot if I wanted to enable 
that.  That's pretty scary, especially given the character of the IRC world.

I'll take a look at creating a patch for the CVS version, but I'm not sure 
just when I'll be able to get to it.  When do you plan to make the next 
release?

 > Eventually I plan to have an admin page of some sort, so it should be
 > possible to only have some actions be accessible from it. I'll also look
 > into putting a flag on the per-Builder config file that lets you
 > enable/disable the world-accessible Force-Build button.

Per-builder config file?  Is that new in the CVS version?

 > Very soon. There is code in CVS now to send mail to a fixed list of
 > recipients (although you can configure it to only send the mail when the
 > build has started failing, i.e. when build[n] fails and build[n-1] was
 > successful). I also expect to improve the IRC client to add a "noisy" or
 > "announce" mode, where notices like this are sent spontaneously to the
 > channel.

Good enough for me for now!  I'm looking forward to the next release.

 > > Are there any plans to make the HTML more template-based?
 >
 > I haven't looked into that, but I'd welcome patches :). I heard that
 > somebody had done some CSS-ification work, but didn't sound like they were
 > able to make it public. Web stuff isn't my strength.. hopefully someone
 > else who knows Woven or Nevow or something will get interested in this
 > one.

I'm afraid I don't know any of the twisted.web stuff; I've only snuck around 
with the FTP and SSH components.  I could probably knock out something really 
simple that look like PEP 292 templates, though.  ;-)


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>