[devel at bb.net] ticket 2887 & 3270

[Edmund Wong]

Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> Bug 2887 is a Buildbot feature -- take the existing github changesource and
> add make it more flexible, able to respond to more than just pull
> requests.  Have a look at the github web hooks documentation for the other
> kinds of events.
> 
> Bug 3270 is about using Buildbot to test its own pull requests, rather than
> Travis-CI (and now Appveyor and Circle and Codecov and Mentionbot and all
> the rest).  This requires some additional features in Buildbot.  Just off
> the top of my head, that means some kind of security model (so we're not
> building arbitrary code from anyone on github) and a reporter that posts
> build results to a Github PR, similar to how Travis, etc. do.
> 
> Dustin

Thanks Dustin for the clarification.

I've taken a look at the list of possible events and am
not sure which ones Buildbot (wrt ticket 2887) would
care about (well aside for the 'create' branch/tag,
which buildbot should try to do a build on the
created branch).

As for ticket 3270, I'm somewhat confused (probably because
my understanding is still lacking).  With the github
pull_request handler in the github hook, wouldn't buildbot
already be set to test the pull requests?

Edmund