[Buildbot-devel] How many VCS does buildbot support?

[Charles Lepple]

On Jul 6, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Jon Mills wrote:

> Would it be a good idea (or even possible) to split the VCS interface
> code out into some sort of plugin system - interested parties could
> handle integration with less popular VCS systems without affecting the
> trunk?

If the notion of patching Buildbot for a not-so-popular VCS is not  
desirable, then the potential problems from a plugin interface might  
not be much better.

With the Buildbot source tree in Git, it shouldn't be too hard to  
maintain a fork on GitHub (or even hosted somewhere else) to support  
other VCSes. The maintainers for those forks would still need to keep  
tabs on Buildbot trunk developments.

Or am I missing a hidden benefit of plugins?