[Buildbot-devel] Buildbot 1.0: The Shimmering Vision

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 11:02 PM,  <Terry.Rankine at csiro.au> wrote:
> My views:

Thanks!  Who's up next?

> * some sort of external access control (who can view the status, the
> logs, force builds) (not a proxy hack in apache...)

Seconded :)

> * node tracking - if a node goes down - how do I remember what machine
> it actually was or who to ask to turn it back on? I have used/abused
> 'name' too much - we need a tiny bit more information for the slaves.
> 'platform' 'hostname' 'os' and a record of the last machine connected -
> as its how you work out who to contact about bringing up the slave
> again.

Just FYI, this already exists -- you can subclass BuildSlave and add
any attributes you like.  You can even have your subclass add that
information as build properties.

Dustin

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