Buildbot Development

This chapter is the official repository for the collected wisdom of the Buildbot hackers. It is intended both for developers writing patches that will be included in Buildbot itself, and for advanced users who wish to customize Buildbot.

• Buildbot Coding Style
  • Symbol Names
  • Twisted Idioms
  • Writing Buildbot Tests
• Master Organization
  • Buildmaster Service Hierarchy
• Definitions
  • Repository
  • Project
  • Version Control Comparison
• Configuration
  • Builder Configuration
• Error Handling
• Reconfiguration
  • Reconfigurable Services
  • Change Sources
  • Schedulers
  • Slaves
  • User Managers
  • Status Receivers
• Utilities
  • buildbot.util.bbcollections
  • buildbot.util.eventual
  • buildbot.util.json
• Database
  • Database Overview
  • Schema
  • API
  • Writing Database Connector Methods
  • Modifying the Database Schema
  • Database Compatibility Notes
• Build Result Codes
• File Formats
  • Log File Format
• Web Status
  • Jinja Web Templates
  • Web Authorization Framework
• Master-Slave API
  • Connection
  • Build Slaves
  • Setup
  • Pinging
  • Building
  • Slave Builders
  • Commands
  • Updates
• String Encodings
  • Inputs
  • Outputs
• Metrics
  • Metric Events
  • Metric Handlers
  • Metric Watchers
  • Metric Helpers
• Classes
  • BuildFactory
  • RemoteCommands
  • BuildSteps
  • ForceScheduler