[Buildbot-devel] master status

[Nick Trout]

I'd like to create a service which I can query about the current master
status. I'd like the service to tell a client when something happens to
the build. I'd also like to be able to query the status service about
the current build status. I was thinking of using XMLRPC to connect to
the service so that a client can receive build status changes, or to
retrieve status information from the status service.

I'm looking at the BB code and there seem to be a number of different
ways to go about this. I suppose the intended method would be something
like: create a status service in BB/status which is a StatusReceiver to
get updates which you pass on, and then cache information here to supply
information when we have a query. It seems a bit redundant
caching/duplicating information here so there may be a better way to do
this.

Do you have any tips about what would be the best way to approach this?
How should this be written so as to be easy to maintain in BB (and fit
with any of the current changes etc)?

Thanks,
Nick