[Buildbot-devel] Status of the trac plugin

[Brian Warner]

"Matthieu Brucher" <matthieu.brucher at gmail.com> writes:

>    I've tried to use the plugin, but I ran into troubles with the darcs
>    version of buildbot :

>    - using the keyword 'slaves' instead of 'bots' does not function
>    although a warning says it should work

In what way did it fail? Using the following snippet (taken directly from the
master.cfg.sample that 'buildbot create-master' provides) seems to work for
me here:

 from buildbot.buildslave import BuildSlave
 c['slaves'] = [BuildSlave("bot1name", "bot1passwd")]

Note that c['slaves'] must be populated with BuildSlave instances. The
deprecated c['bots'] can accept (name,passwd) tuples, but c['slaves'] will
not.

>    - my custom buildbot.css file is not accessible anymore

Just copy it into public_html/buildbot.css, and it will be retrieved from
there. Same with robots.txt .

>    - I do not know how to use the XMLRPC server :( no sample anywhere

Yeah, true. Take a look at buildbot/status/web/xmlrpc.py for now, that may
give you a hint as to how to use it. I'd also suggest using a python shell
and the 'xmlrpclib' library for testing:

 24:warner at fluxx% python
 Python 2.4.4 (#2, Jul 21 2007, 11:00:24) 
 [GCC 4.1.3 20070718 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-14)] on linux2
 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import xmlrpclib
 >>> p = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy("http://localhost:8080/xmlrpc")
 >>> p.get_build(args..)

>    Are these future changes documented somewhere ?

Not yet. Much of the remaining work for the upcoming 0.7.6 release is to
document this stuff (and the upgrade process) well.

Speaking of upgrade, I'm working on adding a 'buildbot upgrade-master'
command, which would look at your existing buildmaster basedir and do
whatever changes are necessary to bring it up-to-date. For 0.7.6, that would
mean creating a public_html/ directory, populating it with the same
(index.html, buildbot.css, robots.txt) files that 'create-master' does, and
then checking your master.cfg file for deprecated elements. I think this sort
of tool should help cover a couple of the problems you experienced.

cheers,
 -Brian