[Python-Dev] Possible language summit topic: buildbots

["Martin v. Löwis"]

>>> This sounds like something that should be reported
>>> upstream. Particularly if you know how to reproduce it.  Has it been?
>>
>> No, largely because I can't reproduce it at all.  It's happened maybe
>> 4-5 times in the past 2 years or so.  All that I see is that my end
>> looks good yet the master end seems not to be dispatching jobs (it
>> never shows an explicit disconnect for my slave though).

It's not really reproducible. I think it sometimes happens when I
restart the master; sometimes, some clients fail to reconnect
(properly).

> It's easy to set up if not, the BuildSlave initializer accepts a list of
> email addresses that will be notified when that slave goes offline,
> notify_on_missing:
> 
> http://buildbot.net/apidocs/buildbot.buildslave.AbstractBuildSlave-
> class.html#__init__

I tried that out a couple of weeks ago, but never received any email.
I didn't have the time to look into this further since.

Regards,
Martin