[Buildbot-devel] Ignoring offline builders/slaves

[Jason Edgecombe]

Hi everyone,

We maintain a buildbot farm of volunteer slaves. A subset of the slaves 
use Gerrit as a changesource. Occasionally, one of the gerrit slaves is 
down, and can be down for hours until the slave admin can fix it. During 
the outage, gerrit changes are blocked from being built and receiving 
status updates on the builds. Is there a way to dynamically exclude the 
offline builders from the gerrit pool?

For reference, my buildbot config file is at
https://github.com/edgester/afsbotcfg/blob/master/master.cfg

Thanks,
Jason