[Buildbot-devel] Metaconfiguration format

[Ellis Breen]

Wow, thanks Steve, I'll take a look at this now. Just want to do things in
as 'standard' a way as possible to get the most out of Buildbot.
Ellis

2009/6/15 Steve 'Ashcrow' Milner <smilner at redhat.com>

On 15/06/09 14:26 +0100, Ellis Breen wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> I'm just trying to sketch out our current (rather complicated) Buildbot
>> installation configuration to get a better handle on how to best use our
>> limited resources. Several of our machines do double or triple-duty,
>> running
>> numerous slave configurations, some of them dual-booting.
>>
>> It occurred to me that if I produce this information in a structured
>> format
>> (e.g. GraphXML), it could be used by python-graph (or another library) to
>> aid in the automated configuration and control of our Buildbot network. It
>> might also be used by our C and C++ test applications themselves (so there
>> should preferably be a nice way to integrate this with those - libxml and
>> some glue code maybe).
>>
>> I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions about what would be a
>> good format for this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ellis
>>
>
> YAML or XML seems like they would be the best formats. I'm not sure if
> if your looking for this type of layer but loki
> (https://fedorahosted.org/loki/) generates configs and manages
> buildbots (https://fedorahosted.org/loki/wiki/ManagingBuildBots).
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