[Buildbot-devel] trigger a builder from another builder: a bit of confusion

[Axel Hecht]

If you only want to trigger under some condition, have a look at doStepIf in
http://buildbot.net/buildbot/docs/0.8.3/Common-Parameters.html#Common-Parameters,
that might be useful.

Axel

2011/4/1 Fulvio Cervone <fcervone at me.com>

> Thanks Axel
>
> Indeed my setup is much more like  a stripped down setup; was not useful to
> add complexity while I was trying to understand the setup from the design
> point of view, so I just oversimplified the setup to get it right.
>
> I tried it and it works fine; I just wish that i would be able to not have
> the previous step to fail and halt the builder, to avoid to run always the
> trigger even when i do not need it (something like if the check step is not
> successful I would like to halt the build and show a warning instead, but so
> far was not able to find a way to achieve this, so i just keep in mind that
> it is not a failure when the check step fail, and the whole check builder
> fails).
>
> I will also add the triggerable to B, so i can kick the tests if needed (my
> build process is kinda messy, so i do not need the tests all the times)
>
> Thanks for the clarification!
>
>
> On Apr 1, 2011, at 3:55 AM, Axel Hecht wrote:
>
> C should be the triggerable, and the trigger step is in D.
>
> Now, I'm a tad confused about your setup at large. What people usually do
> is
>
> Build A on changes to the source code.
>
> If A succeeds, do tests, aka, add a trigger step to A, kicking off a
> triggerable B.
>
> Not sure why you're running C less frequently, but you could possibly just
> trigger it from B, if your tests pass.
>
> Axel
>
> 2011/4/1 Fulvio Cervone <fcervone at me.com>
>
>> Buildbot users/devs,
>>
>> I am planning to create a builder that will be triggered by a step in
>> another builder...but i am not getting the logic right, so before writing
>> code i would like to know how to get this right from the design perspective.
>>
>> I have 3 builders:
>>
>> A that build
>> B that test
>> C that update tools
>>
>> and a factory for each of them (fA, fB and fC)
>>
>> each builder has a scheduler set (sA,and sB runs every hour, sC every 8
>> hours)
>>
>> now i would like to add a check on C, so if there are certain conditions
>> it will be triggered, so i planned to introduce builder D, that will check
>> and trigger C if the conditions are satisfied.
>>
>> Looking at the triggerable steps and builders, I get that i have to create
>> a triggerable builder, so I made
>>
>> Builder D, that has the factory fD(that will run the steps to check if C
>> should be run or not)
>>
>> and the scheduler sD (triggerable that is pointing to the builder C)
>>
>> Now where should i put the trigger step? From what I understand it should
>> go in fD, right after the step to check if C should be run or not.
>>
>> Is this correct or did I got it all wrong ?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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