[Buildbot-devel] GSoC idea discussion "Replace try with a client for the force scheduler"

[Mikhail Sobolev]

Hi Varun,

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 06:53:02PM +0530, Varun Sharma wrote:
> I am pleased to be back with buildbot community.
Welcome back :)

> I have few queries regarding the project:
> 
> 1. Right now, try schedulers are used to test the patches. If we are to add
> support of patches in force scheduler, then is try scheduler gonna take help
> from try scheduler to try a patch or will it be doing the try task on it's
> own? Is it like force scheduler will be acting as an interface b/w try
> scheduler and www/ ?
As we discussed on IRC, it's somewhat oposite: "try scheduler" functionality
should be an interface between Web UI and a ForceScheduler from the user point
of view.  From the administrator point of view, it might look just a
ForceScheduler with extra parameters.

> 2. I read in the requirements of the project that the support for DVCS is
> required and the client will send a repository in that case. How can we add
> the support to send repository in web client and process it in force
> scheduler ?
And, as it was noted on IRC, this particular feature means that instead of a
patch for a known-to-the-master repository, the end user could specify a remote
location for the change to build.

-- 
Misha