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Alioth moving toward pagure

Posted Jun 25, 2017 13:07 UTC (Sun) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Alioth moving toward pagure by yoe
Parent article: Alioth moving toward pagure

+1 on buildbot. It's relatively light-weight and easy to install. The python configuration makes it very easy to customise (and I'm not a big fan of python either). It has a clean and logical design. The documentation is pretty good. It can spin up VMs on demand.

It's a great bit of software.

Indeed, I could see it being very useful for wider system-orchestration tasks, beyond just CI.

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Alioth moving toward pagure

Posted Jun 25, 2017 19:38 UTC (Sun) by yoe (guest, #25743) [Link]

Oh yeah, that's definitely possible. Buildbot allows you to run whatever you want through the shell build step. Something like 'build, run tests, if tests are successful then commit something in puppet repository so that hosts are auto-updated to install this version from the git commit id' seems very achievable, easy even. And you could limit that do that it would only try to do that for tagged commits or commits on a particular branch, for instance.

Alioth moving toward pagure

Posted Aug 2, 2017 19:20 UTC (Wed) by rurban (guest, #96594) [Link] (2 responses)

-1. I used buildbot for a couple of years, until it got hacked. twisted is insecure.

Alioth moving toward pagure

Posted Aug 3, 2017 3:18 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

The web interface? You don't have to expose that if it's sending status updates to your repository. Or hacked through some other means?

Alioth moving toward pagure

Posted Aug 3, 2017 5:45 UTC (Thu) by mbunkus (subscriber, #87248) [Link]

Can you be a bit more specific,please, so that those of us running Buildbot can take appropriate countermeasures? Thanks.