[Buildbot-devel] Buildbot 1.0: The Shimmering Vision

Mark Roddy markroddy at gmail.com
Thu Aug 7 22:56:16 UTC 2008


+1 on load balancing.  I've found many cases where we have a single
slave running multiple builds, but the another is completely idle.

-Mark


On 8/7/08, Stefan Seefeld <seefeld at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>  > Buildbot 1.0 is a framework for building distributed testing systems
>  > (so users write a buildbot *program*, rather than configuring
>  > buildbot).  It has a solid distributed job control system capable of
>  > sophisticated job scheduling and control.  It has a scalable
>  > persistence backend for storing build results, with an expandable
>  > schema.  It ships with a bunch of components, and makes it easy to
>  > plug in more: version-control interfaces, build processes,
>  > notification systems, displays, and control.  It uses normal software
>  > abstraction techniques to make the basic use-cases easy.
>  >
>
>
> I'd like to add load balancing to this list. I have submitted an RFE for
>  this a *long* time ago (http://buildbot.net/trac/ticket/42), but
>  unfortunately this got moved back from milestone to milestone. I don't
>  actually believe much is missing in order to get this working, but I
>  lack the insight to just roll it on my own.
>
>  Thanks,
>        Stefan
>
>
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