Re: Buildbot version

[Ilmar Wilbers <ilmarw simula no>]

Hi John,

Thanks for your reply. Could you give some insights as to what this 
alternative approach the buildbot team told you about consist of?

ilmar

John Carr wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
>                 About make an update to a newer version of buildbot, I
>                 think that John Carr
>                 were trying to do that to the current stable buildbot
>                 release (0.7.7) [1],
>                 but I'm not sure if he gets a full support. I mean, he
>                 didn't sent any patch
>                 to the list.
>                        
>
>             I can wait...
>                
>
>         I hope that Carr have just read this mail and could give us
>         more information.
>
>
> There is a branch [1] on the page you already linked to with the stuff 
> I was trying out. At this point, I don't think its worth upgrading the 
> existing scripts to 0.7.7. <http://0.7.7.> I had some major problems 
> migrating the waterfall views to the new WebStatus (can't remember the 
> current status, but I think they were partially working again but only 
> by shipping a file from buildbot 0.7.5 alongside our code) but we 
> already know our existing approach won't scale past a few buildbots 
> and were told of a different approach by the buildbot team.
>
> I've been meaning to try out this alternative approach but havent had 
> time. I'd like to have something running for GUADEC, though.... I'll 
> try and find some time to pick up on this.
>
> John
>
> [1] http://bzr.unrouted.co.uk/jhbuildbot