[Buildbot-devel] Splitting slave from master

Dustin J. Mitchell dustin at zmanda.com
Mon Jun 7 15:34:29 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Greg Ward <greg at gerg.ca> wrote:
> Makes sense.  I guess it's too late to suggest that "buildslave"
> should be called "buildbot-slave" or "buildbot.slave" or
> "buildbot_slave" or something similar?  You can still use that
> terminology in your source tarball, and that will spill out to
> RPM/dpkg/port names, which is possibly more important.  (IMHO "apt-get
> install buildbot-slave" makes much more sense than "apt-get install
> buildslave".
>
> It just seems to me that the term "buildslave" is a bit vague and does
> not make clear that this code is part of BuildBot.

Do you mean the distribution name, or the python package name?  We
could certainly change the distribution name..

Dustin

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