[users at bb.net] Capability system

[Georges Racinet]

On 04/01/2016 06:43 PM, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Georges Racinet <gracinet at anybox.fr> wrote:
>>> Now for our own sake, I will separate from our actual build definitions in a
>>> git repo of its own, and see if I can make nice examples based on meta
>>> buidbot and SimpleConfig use-cases.
>> So, here it is : https://github.com/anybox/anybox.buildbot.capability
>>
>> As it's been said before, it's a system to declare "capabilities" on
>> workers, and spawn automatically builders according to requirements or
>> multiplication (build_for) directives. This is "static" because this happens
>> at buildmaster startup or reconfiguration time. There's a full explanation
>> at http://docs.anybox.fr/anybox.buildbot.capability/master
>> ...
>> Also, I've taken a look at contrib/SimpleConfig.py, but its examples don't
>> seem to be a good match to display the multiplication feature, because the
>> build variants are based on arbitrary tags, not on versions (there's an
>> example with workers having two Ubuntu versions, but no build uses both of
>> them if I got it right). Those examples could be rewritten using the
>> filtering requirements, but that actually makes it less simple.
> We're using SimpleConfig.py; I recently ported it forward to 0.8.12.
> (Our master.json is 2748 lines :-)
> Its tags are not quite flexible enough, so I'm mulling improving it to
> meet our current use cases.
> If/when I do, maybe it'll be a better match for your capability
> system, I'll see if I can fit them together.
> (No promises about when :-(  )
ah, btw, I did the whole porting to 0.9 terminology (workers) and
imports (plugins), but since this is after all extracted from 0.8 code,
it wouldn't be hard to have an "eight" branch, just a matter of
reverting some commits, I believe

Don't hesitate to wave if/when you do, if I'm around (bif if) I'll help.

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