[Buildbot-devel] Going beyond the tutorial; ideas for simplifying larger configurations

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Tom Prince <tom.prince at ualberta.net> wrote:
> I'm not suggesting that everybody uses the same style of declarative
> config. Simply that buildbot should evolve towards providing clean
> seperation between the declarative and executable (and testable?) parts of the config,
> and tools to handle that.

The danger in having one "preferred" method is that we pick it too
soon.  You pointed to three *very* different approaches to this
problem, and there are lots of others.  At least initially, I'd like
to have a number of frameworks to choose from -- just as there are a
number of Python web frameworks out there.  If one turns out to be the
clear winner -- and there are a number of characteristics to judge on
-- then we can at least make it "recommended", and perhaps include it
in the main distribution too.

I don't like using big words like "ecosystem", but I think that's what
I'm looking for here.

Dustin