[Buildbot-devel] Rationally Dealing with Several Products

[Roy S. Rapoport]

Having started playing with buildbot, it looks like I should define a
builder for every unique product, branch, platform combination.  At work,
where I've started deploying buildbot, some of our products build on 18
platforms; some of our products have up to four concurrently-developed
branches.  And we've got about 4-6 products.  The worst-case scenario,
then, is that we have 432 possible builders.  Mind you, we're not at the
worst-case scenario -- today, we only have 159 combinations.

However, 159 is still quite a lot, and having a web page with 159 columns
in it will, I suspect, not be particularly useful.  

How do other people deal with this?

-roy