[Buildbot-devel] Automated release builds

[Andy Howell]

I've got buildbot working fine for continuous and nightly builds. Now I want to automate
our release build process.

I need to fire off builders that will do a clean checkout of the source with a specified
tag and a list of release packages to build. The 'release packages' specify subsets of of
the full build.

My initial thought was to make a custom scheduler that I can trigger by an external script.

I noticed the new "change hooks" in the docs:
  http://buildbot.net/buildbot/docs/latest/Change-Hooks.html#Change-Hooks

It looks like I could just do a POST with the repository and branch ( CVS tag ) that I want.

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks,

	Andy