[Buildbot-devel] cleanly taking slave offline?

[Dobes Vandermeer]

On 8/3/05, Brian Warner <warner-buildbot at lothar.com> wrote:
> > I'm sure I just missed it but is there a way to cleanly take a slave
> > offline after it completes its current build?
> Would that help, or do you think you want to reboot the slave while it is
> paused (which would probably restart the build slave, depending on how you
> have it set up, and then the flag would get cleared).

Pausing, Killing, and Rebooting would be useful, I think.  Pausing is
the most useful because it means you can safely change the
configuration, or possibly just pause the build while you fix whatever
is causing the build to fail.  It would be great if this was
accessible from the web page (I have no security concerns currently).

I'm not sure if it is on the TODO list, but the ability to shutdown
the master cleanly (and all the slaves) also would be useful, e.g.
when you change the source code.