[Buildbot-devel] Inheritance of Properties by Triggerables

[Doug Latornell]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at zmanda.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Doug Latornell <doug at sadahome.ca> wrote:
> >> No, we don't want to automatically inherit properties.
> >
> > Okay, I'll accept that, though I am curious why?
>
> Lots of properties are very specific to a build -- warnings-count, for
> example, or any other custom properties a user might configure.  In
> cases where the triggered build is only tangentially related to the
> triggering build (for example, a packaging build), it doesn't make
> sense to carry these properties over.

Makes sense.  Thanks for the explanation.

Doug