[Buildbot-devel] Programmatic Slave status

[Mick Jordan]

On 2/8/14 6:03 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Mick Jordan <mick.jordan at oracle.com> wrote:
>> Sorry, I meant 'slave.slave_status.connected == False'. It is also the
>> case that 'slave.slave is None', so slave.isConnected() returns False.
> I don't have a reason that might be the case, but in general that code
> is overly complex and not well-tested, so I can't say I'm surprised.
>
> Tom is working on finishing up the slave-protocol work from the last
> GSoC, which should give us a better way to monitor this sort of thing.
>
> In the interim, if this happens repeatedly and you can track it down
> with some prints at strategic places in the source (which appear in
> twistd.log), I'd love to get it patched.
>
>
This seems to be related to whether I reconfig rather that restart the 
buildbot after making changes to master.cfg.

Mick