[Buildbot-devel] Buildbot at Loopt

[Marcus Lindblom]

Ian Peters-Campbell wrote:
> Hey everyone,

> - Extended the IRC bot to take build properties on the force build line, 
> so users can now, for instance, say:
> iPhoneBot: force build iPhone-release because I said so --conf=Debug
> 
> Basically when the force line is being parsed, I spin through the 
> "reason" portion of the line and strip out any words which are prepended 
> with --.  These are then split into key/value pairs (if possible) and 
> added to the build's properties.  This allows us to have a single 
> builder per code branch, but order builds for individual handsets, 
> pointing at a variety of servers, turning debug on or off, etc.
> Buildbot-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f at public.gmane.org
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/buildbot-devel

This is neat!

I'd love to have this, as I could setup our build process to build a web 
page with buttons to force various builds, then upload it to the 
webserver, to be able to trigger builds of the current products in our 
repo.

Cheers,
/Marcus