[Buildbot-devel] Merging nine to master?

[William Deegan]

Dustin,
On Aug 12, 2012, at 6:51 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at v.igoro.us> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Jared Grubb <jared.grubb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I vaguely remember what you told me before about 'nine', but I havent really followed it too much. Would you mind saying a bit about what's different, what the goals are, etc?
> 
> Sure, good question :)
> 
> The details are at
>  http://trac.buildbot.net/wiki/DevelopmentPlan
> but the short version is, this is the project to refactor Buildbot to
> use message-passing to glue components together, put everything in a
> database, and build a scalable, modern web UI.
> 
> We've been working on the 'nine' branch for a while now, and the
> basics of the data API and www service are in place.  Changes are in
> the data API, but everything else remains as it is in master.  It
> turns out that this is a lot of work!  So I'd like to get more people
> looking at the code, offering feedback, and pitching in.

How far from usable is the nine branch?

-Bill