[users at bb.net] Weekly Meeting Notes

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

Meeting summary

   1. *Introduction* (djmitche
   <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-6>,
   17:00:04)
      1. http://bit.ly/2rup31x (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-7>,
      17:00:09)

   2. *Week in Review* (djmitche
   <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-20>,
   17:01:45)
      1. lots of PRs; p12tic working on canStartBuild (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-34>,
      17:04:33)
      2. November release coming soon (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-39>,
      17:05:26)

   3. *canStartBuild modifications and backward compatibility* (djmitche
   <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-50>,
   17:08:01)
      1. canStartBuild is complex and involves some barely-documented
      customization points that make it difficult to modify (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-53>,
      17:08:27)
      2. considering breaking those customization points (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-54>,
      17:08:36)
      3. also considering combining canStartWithWorkerForBuilder and
      canStartBuild (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-55>,
      17:08:52)

   4. *CI instabilities* (djmitche
   <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-58>,
   17:09:30)
      1. pylint fails sometimes (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-64>,
      17:11:46)
      2. unit tests sometimes get provisioned on small Hyper instances and
      thus take a long time to run (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-66>,
      17:12:04)
      3. some windows tests are flaky (and marked as such now) (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-75>,
      17:13:23)
      4. and e2e tests are flaky just due to including everything (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-77>,
      17:13:37)
      5. p12tic working on these issues (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-79>,
      17:13:47)

   5. *Removing slave-naming compatibility* (djmitche
   <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-88>,
   17:16:10)
      1. *AGREED*: git rm -master/buildbot/worker_transition.py (tardyp
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-116>,
      17:21:11)
      2. *AGREED*: 0.8 slaves must still be able to connect (tardyp
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-119>,
      17:21:55)
      3. *AGREED*: 0.8 slaves must still be able to connect (tardyp
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-120>,
      17:22:01)

   6. *Adding Discourse for Buildbot* (djmitche
   <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-136>,
   17:24:46)
      1. Proposal is to add a discourse instance for Buildbot, and move
      dicussions from the mailing list to that service (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-138>,
      17:25:08)
      2. https://payments.discourse.org/pricing (bdbaddog
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-140>,
      17:25:27)
      3. https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-doesnt-work-on-freebsd/30253
      (tardyp
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-149>,
      17:27:11)
      4. skelly will look into the technical aspects (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2018/buildbot.2018-11-13-16.59.log.html#l-155>,
      17:29:14)



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