[Buildbot-devel] Buildbot 1.0: The Shimmering Vision

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Neil Hemingway
<neil.hemingway at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I have a problem at the moment, where there are so many builds going on that
> our (single) slave is always busy, so I cannot perform a graceful restart
> without disrupting a build.  It would be nice if there were a way of telling
> bb to quiesce (the system/a slave) in preparation for a restart.  It should
> still monitor and accept new build requests, but not start them (at all/on
> that slave) until (the system/the slave) has been restarted.

This would seem to duplicate the "reload" functionality which already
exists -- you should be able to reload your buildmaster while a build
is running, and have the *next* build start using the new
configuration.  My thinking is that, while difficult to implement,
this graceful-restart is a very useful feature that we should keep and
make fundamental to bbot's operation.

Thanks for adding your suggestions :)

Dustin

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