[Buildbot-devel] Few things I'd like ...

[Frederic Leroy]

Hi,

I use buildbot for one week now. And there are few things that bother
me.

1) I use the buildbot Irc status notifier. Often, it disconnect (I
don't know why). Once disconnected, the only way I found to make it
alive again, is to restart buildbot. It would be nice to have an option
to reconnect it automatically.

2) I wish to download logs by Irc ... 

3) We have projects using Gnu Autoconf, but without .configure.
So, I must generate "configure" with autogen/autoreconf (with/out
options). 
So I derivate GnuAutoconf class to add this autogen step. Can we add it
to upstream. 
Something like don't do this by default, but if you add
autogen="autoreconf --force" parameter, it will execute it ?
Another thing I don't like with this class ... it must have a source.
So I can't checkout source, make something (say a Shell command with
autogen ;), and then call GnuAutoconf.

4) I don't like to have one master for each projects. So I ruse and
match them to branch. 
If I'm right there is no way to have many source change notifier and
match them to builders.

5) I wish to have log compressed. We have long and big project here.
Some logs are 50MB big ... and I wan't it whole.

Buildbot is good for everyone ;-)

-- 
Frederic Leroy