[Buildbot-devel] [Monotone-devel] Help request with buildbot for monotone

[Markus Schiltknecht]

Hi,

Scott Lamb wrote:
> Polling (speaking in general here; haven't used the Monotone poller) has
>  important advantages

These are all good reasons in general.

What concerned me about the monotone poller was, that it does lots of 
stuff only to determine what an earlier monotone process already knew. 
Why add (and maintain) code to do that, if there's such a simple lua 
hook for the monotone server which provides exactly that data?

Additionally, the monotone push method is more efficient, as it does not 
need to access a monotone database nor execute an additional monotone 
process. (Both of which could fail as well).

Regards

Markus