If you're not packaging buildbot for a downstream distribution, you can stop reading now.
We are hoping to start 0.9.0 release-candidate builds soon. 0.9.0 is a big jump from 0.8.x for everyone, packagers included. Probably the most important difference is that Buildbot now has several more packages, notably buildbot-www (the web frontend), buildbot-waterfall-view (the waterfall plugin for the frontend), and buildbot-console-view (similar). These are all browser-side apps, written in Coffeescript and compiled to JS. They use lots of npm modules, which I know Linux distros absolutely love. We package them as Python dists, basically by running the JS compilation and browserification process, then shipping the results as "data" attached to a very small Python module. We are also renaming the `buildbot-slave` package to `buildbot-worker`. There will be no buildbot-worker-0.8.x, nor any buildbot-slave-0.9.x. However, buildbot-slave can talk to a 0.9.x master, so users have a good transition strategy. On the positive side, we've fixed the pinned SQLAlchemy and SQLAlchemy-Migrate versions, so we're using the latest versions of both packages. We also dropped support for a lot of older versions of dependencies, although that probably will affect you less. I'm sure there are other differences that I haven't realized will cause you grief. I promise I'll buy a round next time we meet :) At any rate, please have a look sooner rather than later, as we still have some flexibility to adjust our releases, but once we ship 0.9.0 to pypi we'll be more constrained. Dustin _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.buildbot.net/mailman/listinfo/users
