[Buildbot-devel] celebrating 10,000 downloads of Buildbot

[Mark Pauley]

w00t!

Apple loves you too Brian!
Our buildbot checkin test suite has saved our butt!


_Mark


On Aug 9, 2007, at 2:52 AM, Justin Mason wrote:

>
> w00t!  Congrats Brian, it's a great project -- as evidenced by our
> heavy use of it in SpamAssassin, which is otherwise a perl shop. ;)
>
> Many thanks!
>
> --j.
>
> Brian Warner writes:
>> I just checked the sf.net download stats page[1], and sometime  
>> yesterday
>> morning it logged the ten thousandth download of Buildbot.
>>
>> Wow! When I started this project four and a half years ago, I had  
>> no idea it
>> would ever grow to be this popular. Some more stats: We have 204  
>> members on
>> an active, helpful mailing list, with something like 100 messages a  
>> month
>> (even after we dealt with the spam problem). New users are getting  
>> help and
>> good answers to their questions even without my involvement. We've  
>> got a
>> shiny new Trac instance[2], with 51 active tickets (and another 67  
>> on sf.net,
>> maybe 10 of which are duplicates). My best guess is that Buildbots  
>> are in use
>> in at least 200 sites all over the world. I know of Buildbots being  
>> used to
>> improve software quality in an astonishing variety of fields:  
>> computer games,
>> astronomical image processing, financial analysis tools, movie  
>> rendering,
>> embedded systems, web browsers, packet sniffers, databases, desktop  
>> widget
>> libraries, version control systems, streaming media toolkits,  
>> compilers,
>> academic administration tools, spam checkers, plate tectonics  
>> analysis
>> software, and office productivity applications.
>>
>> Google reports 428000 hits for the word "buildbot". A google search  
>> designed
>> to locate public waterfall pages ('buildbot "working for the"  
>> project "last
>> build"') shows 268 hits.
>>
>> Recently there has been a huge burst of amazing patches coming out  
>> of the
>> community, complete with unit tests and documentation updates. I've  
>> started
>> the countdown towards the long-overdue 0.7.6 release[3], which  
>> should be out
>> by the end of the month. It should have new web status pages,  
>> better slave
>> concurrency support, and maybe even that HTML refresh feature that  
>> people
>> have been clamoring for. The future is even brighter: IM status  
>> delivery,
>> better branch support, build status in databases, all sorts of cool  
>> stuff.
>>
>> There are even vague plans afoot to host a Buildbot User's Group  
>> meeting in
>> the San Francisco bay area later this summer.. I think we have  
>> enough local
>> users to make it work. Stay tuned.
>>
>> And finally, somebody is even *paying money* (in the form of buying  
>> AdSense
>> keywords) to encourage people to migrate *away* from buildbot to  
>> another
>> system. If that's not the definition of success, I don't know what  
>> is[4] :-).
>>
>> So anyways, I just wanted to thank the hundreds of hackers,  
>> developers,
>> users, and promoters of Buildbot everywhere who have made this  
>> milestone
>> possible. Our humble project has grown from a hastily cobbled- 
>> together
>> presentation at PyCon 2003 to a large and healthy open-source  
>> community.
>> Today it's 10,000 downloads.. just imagine how soon we'll get to  
>> 100,000![5]
>>
>> tomorrow, the world!
>> -Brian
>>
>>
>>
>> [1]: https://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=73177&ugn=buildbot&type=prdownload&mode=alltime&package_id=0
>> [2]: http://buildbot.net/
>> [3]: http://buildbot.net/trac/milestone/0.7.6
>> [4]: mind you, somebody else is paying even more money to entice  
>> buildbot
>>     users to visit a web site that sells cigar boxes (aka  
>> tinderboxes), so
>>     maybe this isn't quite the definition of success that one might  
>> hope for
>> [5]: my non-scientific extrapolation suggests March 2011. Maybe we  
>> should
>>     start a betting pool..
>>
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