[Buildbot-devel] keywords not honored

[Stefan Seefeld]

Brian Warner wrote:
>> In my master.cfg file I'm using lots of
>>
>> ShellCommand(name='foo', timeout=9600, command=[])
>>
>> However, the waterfall display doesn't show the step's 'name',
>> but instead the command string. Also, the slaves don't see my timeout,
>> but the default value (1200) instead, making them fail a lot.
>>
>> Are these known issues ? Any ways around this ?
> 
> That sounds like a bug.. maybe ShellCommand isn't allowing kwargs to override
> the per-class defaults on those parameters.

Actually, I'v set up a sandbox buildbot instance locally, and there I do
see the correct timeout value in the logs. The name is still wrong,
though. (Any idea as to what could cause the timeout not to get
propagated to the slave ?)

> Is this 0.7.6 or HEAD?

I'm using 0.7.6.

Thanks,
		Stefan


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