[Buildbot-devel] Pause build idea

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Douglas Hubler<douglas at hubler.us> wrote:
> I was thinking of implementing a BuildStep that would pause the build process
> for specified time if there was a failure in the previous step. I need this so I
> can  preserve the test environment for debugging before it's torn down.  I was
> thinking of pausing based on the existence of a file so that the build can be
> unpaused at any point.  Lastly, pause would wait for X time after timestamp on
> said file so developers could touch the file to buy some more time.

I would think a better solution would be to script said preservation
and drop the resulting tarball (or whatever) in some well-known
location for later inspection.  You can conditionalize the
preservation on the failure of the build step.

Dustin

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