[users at bb.net] Packagers: upcoming RC builds
Dustin J. Mitchell
dustin at buildbot.net
Wed Feb 17 01:57:14 UTC 2016
If you're not packaging buildbot for a downstream distribution, you
can stop reading now.
We are hoping to start 0.9.0 release-candidate builds soon. 0.9.0 is
a big jump from 0.8.x for everyone, packagers included.
Probably the most important difference is that Buildbot now has
several more packages, notably buildbot-www (the web frontend),
buildbot-waterfall-view (the waterfall plugin for the frontend), and
buildbot-console-view (similar). These are all browser-side apps,
written in Coffeescript and compiled to JS. They use lots of npm
modules, which I know Linux distros absolutely love. We package them
as Python dists, basically by running the JS compilation and
browserification process, then shipping the results as "data" attached
to a very small Python module.
We are also renaming the `buildbot-slave` package to
`buildbot-worker`. There will be no buildbot-worker-0.8.x, nor any
buildbot-slave-0.9.x. However, buildbot-slave can talk to a 0.9.x
master, so users have a good transition strategy.
On the positive side, we've fixed the pinned SQLAlchemy and
SQLAlchemy-Migrate versions, so we're using the latest versions of
both packages. We also dropped support for a lot of older versions of
dependencies, although that probably will affect you less.
I'm sure there are other differences that I haven't realized will
cause you grief. I promise I'll buy a round next time we meet :) At
any rate, please have a look sooner rather than later, as we still
have some flexibility to adjust our releases, but once we ship 0.9.0
to pypi we'll be more constrained.
Dustin
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