[Buildbot-devel] [buildbot] Fix default with forcesched (#502)

[Tom Prince]

Pierre Tardy <tardyp at gmail.com> writes:

> It has proven in our config to be inefficient in term of UX, and what we
> really need is a "Promote" button. e.g:
> Developer wants to "promote" this try build to a merge build
> ReleaseGuy wants to "promote" this build to be a release released

One option would be to use addURL on some step, to include a link to the
force-build url, with the appropriate settings filled in.

> The implementation needs hacks at several points, so
> If people agree, I would propose to mark this feature as deprecated

I'd be happy to deprecate it.

  Tom