[Buildbot-devel] Interested in gsoc idea : Full Integration for User Support

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 4:10 PM, varun sharma <varunsharmalive at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks a lot dustin, and sorry for replying so late, i was busy with my
> college exams.

We all get busy, including me :)

> I have almost finished with a bug patch. Just wanted to know, has buildbot
> shifted it's issue tracker to github ?

No.  We use trac for issues, and we use Github pull requests for patches.

> Yes, both of them have pretty much in common :) and buildbot is also getting
> new gui in "nine" just like mailman.
> One more thing, I was testing my patch on my configured buildbot at
> http://dev.sharmalabs.com:8010/. I wasn't able to change the owner email, by
> default it's set as username at localhost. How can i change it to
> username at domain.com

This is a bit of an unsolved problem in the user handling.  Subversion
(the version control system that seems to be in use) only provides a
username, not an email, as a revision author.  When a corresponding
Change is added to Buildbot, it looks for a user with that svn
username, creating a user row in the DB if necessary.  Later, when the
MailNotifier attempts to notify about that change, Buildbot looks up
the user row and tries to find an 'email' attribute.  Failing that, I
think it just uses the username, and the mail daemon fills in the
"@localhost" bit.  I might be wrong about that last part in my quick
read of the code.

Dustin