[Buildbot-devel] google pays a visit...

[Stephen Thorne]

On 3/30/06, John Pye <john.pye at student.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> Is there any way that the default setup of BuildBot could be set to
> exclude robots from most of the pages of BuildBot? Like with a
> 'robots.txt' file?
>
> Or does that require that I dig in and get the Apache Proxy
> configuration sorted out, then use Apache to control that stuff. There's
> really no need for Google, Yahoo etc to pull down all my config & build
> log files, for example.

having a file called 'robots.txt', and then hacking
buildbot.status.html.StatusResource.getChild to have
       if path == "robots.txt":
           return static.File('pathto/robots.txt')
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Yeah. something like that. icky and evil I know. :) Bob? Got a better solution?

> Where do I change the text that appears on the Force Build page. For
> example the name of the different buildslaves, and who runs them, etc. I
> checked the manual but I didn't see anything about this there.

They're stored in textfiles in the info directory where your buildslaves are:

shiny:~/slaves/twisted buildbot$ cat info/admin
Stephen 'Jerub' Thorne <stephen at thorne.id.au>
shiny:~/slaves/twisted buildbot$ cat info/host
OS-X 10.4.<latest>
Python2.4.2 from fink

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Stephen Thorne
Development Engineer