[Buildbot-devel] scheduler questions

[Stefan Seefeld]

Scott Lamb wrote:

> Seems like the semaphore would be more useful if you could get this  
> restriction to go away. I.e., I could say "this buildslave can do 4  
> builds at once". If I'm only doing one type of build, that'd let me  
> keep it busy with many branches without requiring me to make a  Builder 
> for each one.

I agree that this would be very useful in the medium term. I still think
that in the long run it would be best to make builder<->slave a
'can run' relationship, and then provide some load balancing, as the machines
typically do other work besides serving a single buildbot.

Thanks,
		Stefan