This is the BuildBot manual for Buildbot version 0.8.12.

Buildbot Manual

• Introduction
  • History and Philosophy
  • System Architecture
  • Control Flow
• Installation
  • Buildbot Components
  • Requirements
  • Installing the code
  • Running Buildbot's Tests (optional)
  • Creating a buildmaster
  • Upgrading an Existing Buildmaster
  • Creating a buildslave
  • Upgrading an Existing Buildslave
  • Launching the daemons
  • Logfiles
  • Shutdown
  • Maintenance
  • Troubleshooting
• Concepts
  • Source Stamps
  • Version Control Systems
  • Changes
  • Scheduling Builds
  • BuildSets
  • BuildRequests
  • Builders
  • Build Factories
  • Build Slaves
  • Builds
  • Users
  • Build Properties
  • Multiple-Codebase Builds
• Configuration
  • Configuring Buildbot
  • Global Configuration
  • Change Sources
  • Schedulers
  • Buildslaves
  • Builder Configuration
  • Build Factories
  • Properties
  • Build Steps
  • Interlocks
  • Status Targets
• Customization
  • Programmatic Configuration Generation
  • Merge Request Functions
  • Builder Priority Functions
  • Build Priority Functions
  • Customizing SVNPoller
  • Writing Change Sources
  • Writing a New Latent Buildslave Implementation
  • Custom Build Classes
  • Factory Workdir Functions
  • Writing New BuildSteps
  • Writing New Status Plugins
  • A Somewhat Whimsical Example (or "It's now customized, how do I deploy it?")
• New-Style Build Steps
  • Summary of Changes
  • Rewriting start
  • Newly Asynchronous Methods
  • Properties
  • Log Objects
  • Status Strings
  • Statistics
• Command-line Tool
  • buildbot
  • buildslave
• Resources
• Optimization
  • Properties load speedup
• Plugin Infrastructure in Buildbot
  • Developing Plugins
  • Plugins of note