[Buildbot-devel] Improper combination of changes

[Dan Kegel]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Nathaniel Hatley
<nathaniel.hatley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Running BuildBot 0.8.6p1 with a Gerrit change source, I am experiencing the
> following issue:
>
> Multiple independent patches are submitted to gerrit, so the slaves begin
> building each patch in series (they are treated as independent changes).
> After some time, additional patches are submitted before the builds have
> completed for the first set of patches.  Some of these patches are updated
> versions of the originals submitted during the first batch.  If the original
> patch has not yet started its build on any of the slaves, the updated
> version is added such that they are no longer independent changes and then
> built together as one set of changes.

FWIW, that part of buildbot might be changing soon, see
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/109210901993926528208
- Dan