[Buildbot-devel] Why 3-level separation?

[Axel Hecht]

2009/2/11 Alexey Eremenko <al4321 at gmail.com>

> Hi All !
>
> I have read the docs, but I am still struggling to understand why
> BuildBot has 3 level hierarchy (factory/builder/build-slave) ?
>
> Why two levels hierarchy is not enough (factory/build-slave) ?
>

You can use the same factory for builders on different platforms.

A factory describes what the build does, a builder describes which of those
builds you do, and each has a bunch of buildslaves to actually execute those
builds.

Axel
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