2009/10/25 <exarkun@twistedmatrix.com>:
If you run a build slave and it's offline when a build is requested, the build will be queued and run when the slave comes back online. So if the CPython developers want to work this way (I wouldn't), then we don't need pony-build; BuildBot will do just fine.
OK, sounds useful. If I'm offline for a while, do multiple builds get queued, or only the "last" one? If the former, I can imagine coming back to a pretty huge load if the slave breaks while I'm on holiday :-( I should look all of this up somewhere. Is there a reference to buildbot for slave maintainers? Are there any specifics for Python slaves that I should refer to? (From what I've been able to find, it seems to me that setting up a slave first requires getting things sorted with the admins, which sadly precludes experimenting to find things out - I can understand why the python admins don't want people "playing" on the live buildbot infrastructure, though :-)) Paul.