[Buildbot-devel] integrating buildbot with trac?

[Justin Mason]

Scott Lamb writes:
>On Sep 10, 2006, at 2:52 PM, Wade Brainerd wrote:
>> Hi all, I've been thinking about the possibilities for integrating  
>> buildbot into Trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/).
>
>Sweet.
>
>> Both are written in Python, but I actually doubt that helps since  
>> Trac runs under mod_python and buildbot uses Twisted.  I think the  
>> Trac page handler would have to request the page from buildbot  
>> itself, and then inline that into the resulting webpage.  Or  
>> perhaps there could be some use of frames to allow the page to  
>> source two different webservers?
>
>I'm not sure you actually need to mix HTML both have made. I think  
>Buildbot has some support already for inspecting its state over PB  
>(for the commandline utilities and whatnot). So the sorts of  
>[buildbot: buildbot-full.status] link you're talking about could be  
>made without any contact to the buildbot webserver, and the links  
>back can be made without talking to trac, since it can just know the  
>URL for a given changelist.

What about adding support to buildbot for a set of well-defined redirect
URLs? e.g. http://buildbot.spamassassin.org:8010/t-sol10-561/builds/latest
would redirect to http://buildbot.spamassassin.org/t-sol10-561/builds/118
, assuming build 118 was the last build, for example.

For a hacky form of transclusion, the <iframe> tag could be useful, too
(if ugly).

I would suggest that before this would become useful, however, the build
history would need to be persistent -- that's a more serious issue in
terms of "deep links" into buildbot output, since if you link to a
particular build, that page will disappear  when the buildbot process is
eventually restarted.

--j.