[Buildbot-devel] 'latent' build host on network power switch

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Andy Howell <andy at gamubaru.com> wrote:
> Does this seem like a reasonable approach?

It does.  deferToSlave is not a good tool unless (a) you're using a
library that doesn't have an asychronous interface and (b) that
library is threadsafe.

If you're just communicating with a network switch, it'd be best to do
that using the normal Twisted network-communication techniques.

Dustin