[Python-Dev] Snakebite, buildbot and low hanging fruit -- feedback wanted! (Was Re: SSH access against buildbot boxes)

[Georg Brandl]

Am 07.11.2010 12:50, schrieb Nick Coghlan:
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Trent Nelson <trent at snakebite.org> wrote:
>> 1.  Set up standard build slaves on all the platforms, but put something in
>> place that allowed committers to ssh/mstsc in to said slaves when things go
>> wrong in order to aid with debugging and/or maintaining general buildbot
>> health (OK'ing modal crash dialogues on Windows, for example).
> 
> This sounds like a great place to start. Perhaps focus on one or two
> of the less common platforms first (e.g. FreeBSD 7 has been hitting a
> few semaphore issues lately). The big 3 (Windows/Mac/Linux) are
> usually reasonably well covered for debugging purposes by people that
> use them for development.
> 
>> 2.  Address the second problem of the buildbot web interface sucking for
>> non-standard branches.  I'm thinking along the lines of a hack to buildbot,
>> such that upon creation of new per-activity branches off a mainline,
>> something magically runs in the background and sets up a complete buildbot
>> view at python.snakebite.org/dev/buildbot/<your-branch-name>, just as if you
>> were looking at a trunk buildbot page.
>>
>> I'm not sure how easy the second point will be when we switch to hg; and
>> I'll admit if there have been any python-dev discussions about buildbot once
>> we're on hg, I've missed them.
> 
> With the switch to hg.python.org imminent, it may be better to focus
> on Hg for that part (unless you have other projects in mind that also
> use SVN). I believe Martin and/or Dirkjan have worked out the
> equivalent triggers and build commands needed to switch the buildbot
> fleet from svn to hg, but I'm not entirely certain about that one.

I've spent a good bit of time on that, and left all the instructions in
the buildbot master config.  I also adapted buildbot's hg hook to our
situation (e.g. to send a change to multiple masters, as required for
the community buildbots), so it should be quite easy to actually
switch the buildbots over on migration day.

Georg