[OpenAFS-devel] Buildbot suggestions: gerrit messages, stdio

[Jason Edgecombe]

On 08/19/2010 12:26 PM, Andrew Deason wrote:
> Now that buildbot is working a bit better, can we start the feature
> creep? ;) I have a couple of requests:
>
>   - IIRC we don't want URLs in the messages submitted to gerrit because
>     gerrit comments are forever and the URLs can (will?) change. However,
>     can we get a build number, or some other identifying piece of
>     information for failed/succeeded builds? I'm not aware of an easy way
>     to find the details for a failed build right now if it's not in the
>     20 most recent builds; I have to go through the builds one-by-one to
>     find the one that built the changeset I'm looking for.
>
>   - The 'stdio' output for the compilation step tends to be huge, and for
>     most failed builds I'm only interested in the last bit of it. Can the
>     buildbot web interface gain the ability to only show me the last N
>     lines? Or is there another way of getting this output?
>
>    
Originally, I thought about putting the last twenty lines of the build 
into gerrit, but that will take a while because I'm new to both python 
and buildbot.

Jason