Extending the Buildbot/Archive

Details

Task	Details	Priority	Contributors	Status	Link(s)
Bonsai Polling	Bonsai can list recent changes in an easily parseable XML format. A new ChangeSource needs to be implemented to poll Bonsai for changes and start a build after the tree is stable.	Done	Ben Hearsum Rob Helmer	New patch has been applied to the trunk. This task is complete.	Initial BonsaiPoller patch Small (messy) patch to fix revision bug Rewrite of bonsaipoller module. Includes test cases Fix for *another* revision bug

News

September 2006

Sept. 19, 2006

• Reading code related to the Waterfall display in regrads to build commenting.

Sept. 25, 2006

• Tinderbox and Bonsai patches were commited into Buildbot, woohoo!
  • Tinderbox Patch
  • Bonsai Patch

Sept. 25, 2006

• Spoke to shaver on the phone about the idea of having buildbot pump build event notifications to Joga as a way of showing the potential. We need to think about how best to achieve this, whether through RSS or some more lightweight format.

Sept. 27, 2006

• Saw a post on the buildbot sourceforge page about RSS of the buildbot Waterfall display. Should look into this some more.

Sept. 30, 2006

• Started porting Tinderbox build commenting code. Looks like it won't be a huge task :).

October 2006

22:42, 1 October 2006 (EDT)

• Bigger task than I thought. I'm having trouble adding a 'notes' log upon instantiation of a status.Build. Will look into it more tomorrow.

11:54, 3 October 2006 (EDT)

• I thought I found a solution to the notes issue, but it's a dead end. I can't just add a notes log whenever a new build is added. raWr. I'm going to look at creating a status.BuildNotes and status.NotesBox.

14:16, 9 October 2006 (EDT)

• BuildNotes and NotesBox was a dead end.
• I discussed build commenting with Brian on the Buildbot mailing list. The appropriate place for this is in IBuildStatus. He'd like it implemented as a "Build Property". Looking at it now, it seems _extremely_ simple. It will not be added as a log, but appending it to the logs is trivial.

17:55, 11 October 2006 (EDT)

• Much progress has been made! Build commenting is almost completely implemented now. Small UI changes and a few things to the main Waterfall page have to be done. I'm having a bit of trouble saving the comments, I'm not sure what to do about that yet. It seems like a bug but I can't be sure. I will probably submit the patch with that note and see what Brian says about it.

01:50, 13 October 2006 (EDT)

• My patch has been submitted. Now I wait and see how repulsed Brian is ;)

00:25, 18 October 2006 (EDT)

• First reactions from Brian are good. I need to add an option to the Waterfall display to enable/disable comments. Should be easy! (Why do I keep saying that?)

11:16, 19 October 2006 (EDT)

• I couldn't sleep so I implemented the Waterfall comments option. Woooo, it really was as easy as I thought it would be.

13:25, 23 October 2006 (EDT)

• I created test_tinderbox.py. Currently it tests to make sure bz2 and gzip compression works fine. There is probably more to test but I can't think of anything else right now.

22:38, 26 October 2006 (EDT)

• Started writing Bonsai test cases today, having some trouble. I have a feeling this would have been much easier if I wrote the test cases _first_

00:23, 31 October 2006 (EST)

• I finally got a working test case written for the BonsaiPoller. Lot's of silly mistakes were made on my first attempt. Writing more should not be very difficult now. But first....sleep!