[Buildbot-devel] Buildbot newbie question on complex setup

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Richard Offer <richard at whitequeen.com> wrote:
> So I guess the question is now how to I trigger across build factories ? -
> or are build factories a logical collection and I should be using triggers
> between the build steps in two different factories ?
>
> From your comments below it seems that using triggers between different
> factories isn't supported in the current objects ?

BuildFactories are just lists of steps, nothing more.  So you can have
a step in a builder trigger a scheduler which then starts an arbitrary
number of other builders.

If you think of a dependency graph, Trigger does the branching, and if
you set waitForFinish=True, it can do the merging, too.

Dustin