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.

• Master Organization
  • Buildmaster Service Hierarchy
• Definitions
  • Repository
  • Project
  • Version Control Comparison
• Buildbot Coding Style
  • Symbol Names
  • Twisted Idioms
• Buildbot's Test Suite
  • Suites
  • Mixins
  • Fakes
  • Good Tests
• Configuration
  • Builder Configuration
  • Error Handling
  • Reconfiguration
• Utilities
  • buildbot.util.lru
  • buildbot.util.bbcollections
  • buildbot.util.eventual
  • buildbot.util.debounce
  • buildbot.util.json
  • buildbot.util.maildir
  • buildbot.util.misc
  • buildbot.util.netstrings
  • buildbot.util.sautils
  • buildbot.util.subscription
  • buildbot.util.croniter
  • buildbot.util.state
  • buildbot.util.identifiers
• 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
• How to package Buildbot plugins
  • Package the source
  • Making the plugin package
  • Publish the package
• Classes
  • BuildFactory
  • BuildSetSummaryNotifierMixin
  • RemoteCommands
  • BuildSteps
  • ForceScheduler
  • IRenderable
  • IProperties