[Buildbot-devel] Forcing builds remotely, anyone with code in stock?

[Ian Zimmerman]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:09:04 +0200
Axel Hecht <l10n.moz at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking at adding code to an external web app to trigger builds in
> buildbot. I'd probably like to not have to use a webstatus, so I
> figured that doing something via pb might work.
> 
> Has anyone done that already and would like to share some code?
> 
> Things on my list would be auth via ssh keys, and then I'd like to be
> able to call methods on schedulers. Maybe a mixin to be hooked on the
> scheduler itself?
> 
> Resubmitting would be nice, too. Could probably share a bunch of
> code, but hooked on a status?
> 
> Anyway, if someone else has thoughts or code in stock, that'd be
> great.

I have this working.  Basically, on the client side, a script that
packages the parameters (owner, branch, revision, repeat count ...) into
a python dictionary, pickles the dictionary, then scp's the pickle to
the master.  On the master, a custom scheduler that looks a lot like
Try_Jobdir.

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