[Python-Dev] [TIP] Possible language summit topic: buildbots (original) (raw)

C. Titus Brown ctb at msu.edu
Fri Oct 30 17:45:49 CET 2009

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:42:30AM -0500, Olemis Lang wrote:

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 9:13 AM, <exarkun at twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > On 12:48 pm, ctb at msu.edu wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> The most exciting part of pony-build, apart from the always-riveting >> spectacle of "titus rediscovering problems that buildbot solved 5 years >> ago", >> is the loose coupling of recording server to the build slaves and build >> reporters. ?My plan is to enable a simple and lightweight XML-RPC and/or >> REST-ish interface for querying the recording server from scripts or other >> Web >> sites. ?This has Brett aquiver with anticipation, I gather -- no more >> visual >> inspection of buildbot waterfall pages ;) > > BuildBot has an XML-RPC interface. ?So Brett can probably do what he wants > with BuildBot right now.

... but pony-build follows a different model

I'd rather not get into discussions of why my vaporware is going to be way, way better than anything anyone else could possibly do -- that's flamebait and not very friendly, in the end. Let's just say that I'm wasting my own time on it to scratch my own itch and leave it at that!

thanks, --titus

C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu

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