[Python-Dev] Documenting the buildbots

[Antoine Pitrou]

For the record, I added a page documenting our continuous integration
setup at:
http://docs.python.org/devguide/buildbots.html

Regards

Antoine.



On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:59:02 +0200
Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm testing my faulthandler repository on the custom buildbots, here are
> some remarks and issues.
> 
> The form still refers to SVN ('Branch to build' is relative to
> http://svn.python.org/projects/python.) => the branch is relative to
> hg.python.org/
> 
> I cannot write "#" in the branch field to specify... the branch (only
> the repository). If the branch contains "#", the request looks to be
> ignored (without any warning/error). I merged my faulthandler branch
> into the default branch (in my features/faulthandler branch).
> 
> I don't understand the meaning of the "project" field. It is maybe
> something specific to Subversion?
> 
> What are the 3 optional properties?
> 
> If branch doesn't end with a slash (e.g. "features/faulthandler"), the
> request is ignored (without any warning/error).
> 
> I canceled a build on a Windows buildbot during the "tests" step using
> the [Cancel] button, but it failed to kill the process:
> 
> http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/x86%20Windows7%
> 20custom/builds/2/steps/test/logs/stdio
> -----------
> command interrupted, killing pid 2168
> SIGKILL failed to kill process
> using fake rc=-1
> program finished with exit code -1
> -----------
> 
> To test my faulthandler feature branch, the correct parameters are:
> --
> Name: haypo
> Reason: test faulthandler
> Branch: features/faulthandler/
> Revision: tip
> Repository: features/faulthandler
> (leave the project and the 6 property fields empty)
> --
> 
> The repository looks like a duplicate of the branch field. I would be
> better to use "default" as the branch and "features/faulthandler" as the
> repository.
> 
> I would be nice to have error messages.
> 
> Victor
>