[Buildbot-devel] Meaningful names for buildsteps?

[Charles Lepple]

On Mar 5, 2012, at 9:02 AM, Johannes Stallkamp wrote:

> "description" and "descriptionDone" only seems to work for the
> waterfall entries themselves. The top entry, "Last build", however,
> shows cryptic names, e.g, "failed compile_7", when a build step fails.
> 
> Is this a bug or is there another way to print a meaningful name?


Sounds like you are looking for the BuildStep 'name' parameter:

   http://buildbot.net/buildbot/docs/current/manual/cfg-buildsteps.html#common-parameters

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Charles Lepple
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