[Buildbot-devel] doc patch for Dependent scheduler

Greg Ward gerg.ward+buildbot at gmail.com
Tue Jul 3 15:24:40 UTC 2007


Hi -- all this talk of dependent schedulers made me notice that the
blurb about Dependent in the "Scheduler Types" is ... umm ... well ...
errr ... wrong.  This patch attempts to correct it, to the best of my
understanding:

"""
--- docs/buildbot.texinfo.orig  2007-07-03 11:05:43.000000000 -0400
+++ docs/buildbot.texinfo       2007-07-03 11:14:59.117124508 -0400
@@ -2076,11 +2076,10 @@
 follows multiple branches at once. Each branch gets a separate timer.

 @item Dependent
-This scheduler watches an ``upstream'' Builder. When that Builder
-successfully builds a particular set of Changes, it triggers builds of
-the same code on a configured set of ``downstream'' builders. The next
-section (@pxref{Build Dependencies}) describes this scheduler in more
-detail.
+This scheduler watches an ``upstream'' Scheduler. When all the
+Builders launched by that Scheduler successfully finish, the Dependent
+scheduler is triggered. The next section (@pxref{Build Dependencies})
+describes this scheduler in more detail.

 @item Periodic
 This simple scheduler just triggers a build every N seconds.
"""

Hope this helps --

Greg




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