[Buildbot-devel] Buildbot 1.0: The Shimmering Vision

[Mark Roddy]

On 8/11/08, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at zmanda.com> wrote:
> 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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>

I'm in total agreement.  I think that an admin web interface should be
pretty add-on that maybe makes it easier to set up a basic build
process (lowering the upfront setup cost to a new user), and
complicated build configurations would have to write their own
configuration.  I actually was thinking that such a web interface
wouldn't need to be more then a front end for editing master.cfg.

-Mark