[Buildbot-devel] Multimaster: separate status from builders?

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:04 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> I'd like to set up buildbot in multimaster mode so that the slaves
> talk to one master, and the status display is dealt by with a separate
> master, for load reasons. Is that supported?
>
> I simply split the configration into two, configured the database to
> be shared, and put all slaves into one config, and the status code
> in the other.
>
> As a result, the waterfall now displays all changes, but knows about
> none of the builders.
>
> I suppose I could duplicate the slave configuration, but would then
> still wonder how the status server can load all the log files - since
> they will be in the builder master directory.
>
> Any help appreciated.

This is what the 0.9.x work is intended to do.  Currently, changes and
scheduling are in the DB, but status is local to a single master.

So, this doesn't work -- yet. :)

Dustin