[Python-Dev] Finding buildbot failures

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 18:26:29 +0000
Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> On 28/02/2011 21:59, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> >>>> That's one of the big advantages that Jenkins (nee Hudson) has over
> >>>> buildbot - drilling down into individual test failures through the
> >>>> web ui. Your test run needs to generate appropriate xml for that to
> >>>> work though.
> >>> Buildbot can do this too.  It can even do it without xml, although it
> >>> does need *some* parseable format, which I think the Python test suite
> >>> is a long way from.
> >>>
> >> That would be a great improvement to the Python buildbot infrastructure.
> > So would you be willing to contribute the necessary changes?
> 
> To whom was this addressed? If to me I have the desire but lack the 
> skill.

It shouldn't be difficult to acquire the skills. Buildbot is pure
Python (even its configuration file).

Regards

Antoine.