[Buildbot-devel] sleep in buildbot.process.buildstep.BuildStep

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

You are correct.  Twisted Python is an asynchronous programming
environment, where just about everything occurs in the main thread.
So time.sleep is a big mistake.

There are some basic how-to guides for Twisted, and a style guide in
the Buildbot documentation (in the developer section).  You will
probably want to use

  yield task.deferLater(60)

within an @defer.inlineCallbacks-decorated method.

Among other things, see
https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/11.0.0/core/howto/time.html

Dustin