[Buildbot-devel] upcoming release plan: freeze 9/5, release 9/12

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:29:21 +0200, Didier Trosset <didier_trosset at agilent.com> wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
>I've uploaded a patch for a source step that pulls out the source files from
>a tar archive on an FTP server (instead of a version control system).
>
>Ticket 333. Any thoughts about it?
>

It would make more sense to have separate FTP and untar/gzip steps.

I agree with the other reply in this thread as well - if it takes too
long to download the file using the blocking FTP interface, the slave
will time out and the build will fail.

Jean-Paul