[Buildbot-devel] Configuring and using the TryScheduler

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

The documentation for the try client seems to be out of whack with its
implementation. Patches would be very much appreciated!
  http://buildbot.net/trac/wiki/SubmittingPatches

Dustin

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Patrick LeGresley <plegresl at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just started using Buildbot and have setup a few basic schedulers
> that are working well.  Very cool thing to have for the work I'm doing
> and now I've been playing around with "buildbot try" in conjunction
> with SVN.  I've been having some trouble getting this part to work and
> wanted to share what I found and see if maybe I could contribute some
> patches.
>
> The main problem I've had I eventually found was related to a failure
> to find the top of the tree.  In the documentation it says you can put
> a .buildbot-top file at top of tree so I thought this was already
> setup as a default name for that file (although I also saw where the
> name of this file could also be overridden).  Note that I'm using
> version 0.7.9.  On line 392 of tryclient.py the name of the file is
> determined:
>
> topfile = self.getopt("try-topfile", "try_topfile")
>
> This is coming back None since there doesn't seem to be a default
> value of ".buildbot-top" as the documentation seems to say.  I tried
> using --try-topfile as mentioned in the documentation but that wasn't
> recognized as a valid option.  Neither was the --try-topdir command.
> I've changed the line above to:
>
> topfile = self.getopt("try-topfile", "try_topfile", default='.buildbot-top')
>
> which seems to result in the default behavior the documentation implied to me.
>
> Also, the documentation said if try couldn't find the top of directory
> it would abort with an error message but all I got was a nasty looking
> traceback.  I wasn't sure how to generate a useful error message and
> accept the options mentioned in the documentation but if someone could
> point me in the right direction I could work on making that part more
> user friendly.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patrick
>
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