[Buildbot-devel] Buildbot 1.0: The Shimmering Vision

[Neil Hemingway]

If all I've changed is the build config, then yes a reconfig will do the
trick, but I'm trying to upgrade bb from 0.7.6 to 0.7.8 and this will
require shutting everything down cleanly, and then restarting with the new
code.

2008/8/12 Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at zmanda.com>

> 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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> Storage Software Engineer
> http://www.zmanda.com
>
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