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

[exarkun at twistedmatrix.com]

On 11:24 am, trent at snakebite.org wrote:
>
>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.

This is basically trivial.  I gave #python-dev a tool for forcing 
builds, dunno if anyone still has a copy, but it's easy to reconstruct 
from <http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/sandbox/exarkun/force- 
builds.py> (which is what the Twisted project uses).  Plus, you can add 
?branch=<name> to most BuildBot views to limit display of results to 
just builds for the named branch.
>Titus, for example, alluded to some nifty way for a committer to push 
>his local hg branch/changes somewhere, such that it would kick off 
>builds on multiple platforms in the same sorta' vein as point 2, but 
>able to leverage cloud resources like Amazon's EC2, not just Snakebite 
>hardware.

BuildBot supports managing EC2 instance lifetimes to run builds.

Jean-Paul