[Buildbot-devel] buildbot tutorial

[Charles Lepple]

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Thomas Vander
Stichele<thomas at apestaart.org> wrote:

> - I find the first experience important, which is why the firstrun part
> is short, simple, and handholding.  I strongly believe that if someone
> out there is looking at a tool to do automatic building, they will give
> every project maybe 5 or 10 minutes of their time and continue with the
> most promising (at least, that's how I tend to do it).  The more
> convincing a project is in those first 5 minutes the better.  So that's
> my aim for the first section.

Agreed, and it looks like your tutorial is heading in the right direction.

The only thing that's a little scary at first glance is the
"virtualenv" dependency. When I think "virtualization", software
packages like qemu and VirtualBox come to mind. From what it looks
like, virtualenv only needs easy_install, so that might be a good
thing to list in the commands.

When you get to writing the part detailing build steps, I'd suggest
separating out the "bells and whistles" section so that people can
skip over the IRC and GUI part if they are content with the web
status.

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- Charles Lepple