[Buildbot-devel] Why is my SVNPoller not working?

[Matt Ackeret]

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Matt Ackeret wrote:
>I set up the public key on my buildmaster account, and copied it to the
>repository machine, and now I can ssh to it (as my username at source user) with
>no prompt.
>
>But that's another thing I don't quite understand.  I don't seem to know how
>to tell is the SVNPoller is "going".  I go to the 'changes' link on my
>waterfall page and see:
>SVNPoller watching svn+ssh://MYSOURCEPATH/branches/buildbot-test-branch
>
>But nothing else seems to show up there.  I did check in another change to
>my test branch a few minutes ago.  The latest timestamp on the waterfall is
>about 8 minutes ago, from the master being shutdown, started, and the
>buildslave connected.

OK, sorry, it was the default pollinterval setting. I forgot that defaulted
to 10 minutes, and thinking the Scheduler's "treeStableTimer" was how often it
would check.  It's not.

So it actually built after setting up the ssh keys.  Yeah!  Thanks.

I will now switch it to the real source path (not my test branch) and hope 
it works.

As I said before, I'm not a python person, so don't quite understand how to
use the debugging mentioned in
4.9 Debug options

What I'd like to be able to do now is to tell the buildmaster "pretend that
the SVNPoller just found a source change and build".  How can I do that?

Thanks...  At least I have the basics working now, I hope.