[Buildbot-devel] Writing a custom status report

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Bob Hood <bhood2 at comcast.net> wrote:
> The Buildbot docs are a bit short on the process of writing custom
> status plug-ins (or I missed it completely). In fact, Section 7.5
> "Writing New Status Plugins" says "TODO: this needs a lot more
> examples."  Can somebody point me to a Web link, or more robust location
> in the docs, that provide information of this kind?  What I'm looking
> for is information in the nature of, for example, "Within a Python
> status plug-in, this is how you get log output from a specific build
> slave's build step...".  I know I can read the included status plug-ins
> (i.e., waterfall.py), but I am interested in seeing the bigger picture
> -- if it has been documented.

That's why there's no documentation -- there's really no good way to
get to a lot of that data, at least in an efficient manner.

When the status is in a database, this may change quite a bit.

Dustin

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