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

[Bill Janssen]

Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 15 May 2010 17:57:28 -0000
> > exarkun at twistedmatrix.com wrote:
> >>
> >> One thing I have noticed is that spammers find these forms and submit
> >> them with garbage.  We can probably suppose that such people are going
> >> to ignore a robots.txt file.
> >
> > So we could "just" fix the buggy buildbot code.
> > Not that I want to do it myself :S
> >
> 
> I can help modify buildbot if you want, but I suppose I need a
> specification what precisely is a bug here. Not accepting forms with
> garbage? By default buildbot "force build" does not require forms to
> be filled and that's on purpose.

I'd find it useful if the "branch" field was a choice pull-down listing
valid branches, rather than a plain text field, and if the "revision"
field always defaulted to "HEAD".  Seems to me that since the form is
coming from the buildmaster, that should be possible.

Bill