[Buildbot-devel] Nightly using name and reason

[Mateusz Loskot]

Brian Warner wrote:
>> Is there any way to provide  Nightly scheduler
>> with 'username', 'comments' and detalils I one can fill on
>> the 'Force Build' web page?
>>
>> It would help me to distinguish builds run by Nightly from
>> other schedulers when all use the same builders.
> 
> What if we added a reason= argument to the Nightly Scheduler? That way you
> could set up your Scheduler like this:
> 
>  s = scheduler.Nightly("nightly", builderNames, hour=3,
>                        reason="This is the nightly build.")
> 
> and then you'd see:
> 
>  Reason: This is the nightly build.

Brian,

That would be great!

> appear in all the build results. Even without a specific reason= argument, it
> would probably be a good idea to have all of the periodic Schedulers set the
> reason string to include the name and type of the Scheduler, to get results
> like this:
> 
>  Reason: The Nightly scheduler named 'nightly' triggered this build.

Yes, very good idea.

> 
> How does that sound?

Sounds great!

Unfortunately, besides throwing up a concept, I'm not able to help you
with adding this feature, I'm sorry :-(

Thank you!
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Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net