[Zope3-dev] A Call for Slaves

[Benji York]

Chris Withers wrote:
> Now I just need a how-to to get me going ;-)

Real Soon Now (tm).

> Oh cool, so buildbot notices changes to a branch, checks it out, builds 
> it, runs tests? Anything else it does?

It can run any command as a of "step" (in BB parlance).  It also has 
several specialized steps for interfacing with CVS, Subversion, etc.

> How easy is it to script? I'd like to get it running on another project 
> of mine?

All the configuration is done in Python, so that part is good.  It is a 
little complex to get started, but not too bad.

> How easy is it to have different scripts set up for different branches?
> (I'd like to have Zope 2, and Zope 2 + CMF, etc)

Quite easy, we already have one set of steps for Unix-like OSs and one 
for Windows.

> If it's running tests, how come we see no dots?

We have the verbosity turned down so any failure email messages will be 
more succinct.
-- 
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation