Hi again Wendy, For your question "So this is an arbitrary string the user can enter anything into?" no not really this is will only hold the platform of the build agent we can do it like having a dropdown for the user to select from a list of platforms(operating system).
i think it would affect the ui for grouping build agents. it just an added field that might be useful in the future when you need to get a list of build agents having a specific platform or know the available platforms of build agents registered in the continuum master. Thanks, Mark Magallanes ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendy Smoak" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, December 8, 2010 11:22:56 AM Subject: Re: proposal to add platform field in the model used for build agents for continuum master On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Mark John Kennedy Magallanes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Wendy It's just an addition field to the model used in continuum when > adding/registering it to > the continuum master. A suggestion to how would it be implemented is to > request it from the user > when adding a build agent is perform and yes, it means the operating system. > The advantage of having > this would be having the ability to select the build agents to used based on > platforms they are > running on. So this is an arbitrary string the user can enter anything into? I guess I'm not sure why it's needed when there is already a description field -- that's pretty much what I put in the description now. And there is already a facility for grouping build agents. How is this going to change the UI for that or for how you select which set of agents is used for particular builds? Don't let me stop you if you have some grand plan for this new field, but I'm concerned that this is adding complexity. Continuum suffers from a history of tacking on one thing after another and not organizing it very well. -- Wendy
