[Buildbot-devel] the aftermath (was Re: SF bay area get-together?)

[Marcus Lindblom]

Robert Helmer wrote:

> What are good practical ways to do this separation? I've been playing 
> with SQLAlchemy lately and it seems quite good, hopefully others have 
> more real-world experience though.. seems like you can take-or-leave a 
> lot of the ORM stuff, I am hoping to use it to abstract some of the 
> database differences so I don't have to have a ton of custom SQL for 
> each major database.

I've doodled with Django a bit lately, and it has DB-connectors (sqlite, 
mysql, postgres & oracle), a very cool & easy db/model-api and a 
template system that might be useful to render more fancy UI.

In fact, Django's model-api is so easy & cool I think it would be very 
easy to add extra data (metrics, whatnot) to builds from custom build 
steps or other tools.

Would that be feasible? We could still use Twisted for the HTTP part, 
but use DB/template system from django for storage & presentation?

Or am I completely out of line? ;)

Cheers,
/Marcus