[Buildbot-devel] Buildbot 1.0: The Shimmering Vision

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Mark Roddy <markroddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 on wiki integration and build manager app.  It'd be nice if I could
> go to a buildbot admin web page to make quick changes rather then
> having to ssh into the box, edit master.cfg, and restart the instance.

The conflict I'm seeing here is between buildbot as a flexible,
general framework for continuous integration testing (capable of
supporting all of the weird uses we've seen in this thread so far) and
buildbot as a well-defined (and thus necessarily limited) application
which has knobs that can be spun via web.  The framework idea implies,
to me, that buildbot configurations are actually programs, which means
they aren't really editable (except via a <textarea>, I suppose) via
the web.

The means I see for avoiding this conflict is to provide some tools
for building administrative interfaces, and ship a basic
trigger-these-builds-on-every-commit configuration which includes an
administrative interface.  Then folks who can get by with the basic
configuration get a web interface, and folks with more advanced
configuration needs can either roll their own administrative interface
or forgo it entirely.

What do you think?

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