Changeset 711

Timestamp:

09/11/08 19:39:15 (4 months ago)

Author:

warner@lothar.com

Message:

NEWS: add updates for all changes since the last release. Still needs some work.

Files:

• NEWS (modified) (1 diff)

NEWS

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-User visible changes in Buildbot.             -*- outline -*-
+
+* Release ?.?.? (?)
+
+** New Features
+
+*** Configurable public_html directory (#162)
+
+The public_html/ directory, which provides static content for the WebStatus()
+HTTP server, is now configurable. The default location is still the
+public_html/ subdirectory of the buildmaster's base directory, but you can
+change this by passing a suitable argument when creating the WebStatus()
+instance in your master.cfg file:
+
+  c['status'].append( WebStatus(8080, public_html="/var/www/buildbot") )
+
+*** Lock access modes
+
+?"exclusive"/"counting" owners of a Lock
+
+
+** Bugs Fixed
+
+*** Buildslave missing_timeout= fired too quickly (#211)
+
+By providing a missing_timeout= argument when creating the BuildSlave
+instance, you can ask the buildmaster to send email if a buildslave is
+disconnected for too long. A bug in the previous version caused this
+notification to be sent too soon, rather than waiting until the timeout
+period expired. This should be fixed now.
+
+*** Test command display fixed (#332)
+
+In the previous version, a steps.shell.Test step would display the parsed
+test results (in the step's box on the waterfall display) in lieu of any
+other descriptive text the step might provide. In this release, these two
+pieces of information are combined.
+
+** Minor Changes
+
+The buildmaster's version is logged to its twistd.log file at startup. The
+buildslave does the same, to its own logfile.
+
+Remote commands now record how long each command took. The "elapsedTime="
+message will appear in the step's main logfile.
+
+The "buildbot restart" command no longer fails if the buildbot wasn't already
+running.
+
+The FileUpload and FileDownload steps now create their target directories
+(and any missing intermediate directories) before writing to the destination
+file.
+
+The per-build and per-step web pages now show the start, finish, and elapsed
+time of their build or step.
+
+??"fix sendchange when HEAD is specified"
+
+** Compability With Other Tools
+
+The mercurial commit hook (buildbot.changes.hgbuildbot) in the previous
+version doesn't work with hg-1.0 or later (it uses an API function that was
+present in the hg-0.9.5 release, but was removed from hg-1.0). This
+incompability has been fixed: the new version of buildbot should be
+compatible with hg-1.0 and newer (and it probably retains compability with
+hg-0.9.5 and earlier too). (#328)
+
+The Git tool has traditionally provided two ways to run each command, either
+as subcommands of /usr/bin/git (like "git checkout"), or as individual tools
+(like /usr/bin/git-checkout). The latter form is being removed in the
+upcoming 1.6 Git release. Previous versions of Buildbot have used the
+git-checkout form, and will break when Git is upgraded to 1.6 or beyond. The
+new Buildbot release switches to the subcommand form. Note that this is a
+change on the buildslave side.
+
+?? The Git checkout command will now use the default branch (as set in the
+steps.source.Git() step definition) if the changes that it is building do not
+specify one.
+
-
-* Release 0.7.8 (24 Jul 2008)