[Buildbot-devel] Request for help for GSoC 2014

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

Your understanding of the code is correct, but I think that what
you're seeing as "keep-alive" is completely unrelated.  We use
perspective broker to talk to slaves, and that connection is kept
alive with some empty function calls.  We will not be using MQ to
communicate with slaves (in fact, last year's GSoC included a project
to switch to a protocol other than perspective broker for slave
communication, although this is not complete).

Dustin