[Buildbot-devel] Automated release builds

[Marcus Lindblom]

On 2010-09-10 03:23, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Andy Howell<AndyHowell at austin.rr.com>  wrote:
>> 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.
>
> The "try" functionality might be better suited to this particular
> purpose, as it does not inject a new Change object.  But the Change
> Hooks are new and it would be interesting to see if they're
> better-suited to the purpose!

How about just forcing a build on the release-builder via the 
web-interface (a scripted POST if you'd like it automated) ?

I'm thinking about something similar for us here, as I could have steps 
that upload the files somewhere, extract changelog vs. the last release, 
etc etc etc.

Cheers,
/Marcus