[Python-Dev] robots exclusion file on the buildbot pages?

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Sat May 15 22:01:46 CEST 2010


Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> The buildbots are sometimes subject to a flood of "svn exception"
> errors. It has been conjectured that these errors are caused by Web
> crawlers pressing "force build" buttons without filling any of the
> fields (of course, the fact that we get such ugly errors in the
> buildbot results, rather than a clean error message when pressing
> the button, is a buildbot bug in itself). Couldn't we simply exclude all
> crawlers from the buildbot Web pages?

I caused a few of those myself yesterday updating my PPC buildbots.

Apologies!

Bill


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