On 2012-06-21, at 15:46, Lucas Forschler <lforsch...@apple.com> wrote:

> I'd like to see a 'test' buildbot up and running that we could use as a 
> staging area for trying out new changes before deploying to the production 
> server.  We could copy 
> /OpenSource/Tools/BuildSlaveSupport/build.webkit.org-config to 
> /OpenSource/Tools/BuildSlaveSupport/test.webkit.org-config, and have a test 
> build master that updates and outputs logs somewhere readable (public_html?). 
>  Then, we could make sure any changes work on the test master before 
> committing them to production.

Having a test master seems like a good idea. Doing it by keeping a complete 
second copy of the configuration checked in to SVN seems less than ideal.

- Mark

> On Jun 21, 2012, at 1:15 PM, William Siegrist wrote:
> 
>> The server does not run the unittests, but it does normally run `buildbot 
>> checkconfig`. However, we had to temporarily bypass the checkconfig test 
>> during restart due to a bug in Buildbot:
>> 
>> http://trac.buildbot.net/ticket/2279
>> 
>> The best thing to do when working on the buildbot config is to have buildbot 
>> installed on your local machine so you can test the config before 
>> committing. That avoids the confusion of the reconfig not happening and 
>> people thinking the automatic reconfig is just broken.
>> 
>> -Bill
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 21, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Osztrogonac Csaba <o...@inf.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> In this case we could have avoided the breakage with running this unittest.
>>> Can we make the master somehow run this unittest before restarting itself?
>>> 
>>> br,
>>> Ossy
>>> 
>>> Eric Seidel írta:
>>>> One can run:
>>>> http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Tools/BuildSlaveSupport/build.webkit.org-config/mastercfg_unittest.py
>>>> to test the master locally, but that's all I know of.
>>>> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Sergio Villar Senin
>>>> <svil...@igalia.com> wrote:
>>>>> En 21/06/12 19:54, William Siegrist escribiu:
>>>>>> On Jun 21, 2012, at 10:43 AM, Jon Lee <jon...@apple.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Is something being upgraded right now?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> No, the config file has a problem in it which is unrelated to our 
>>>>>> upgrade as far as I can tell. I'm trying to track down what happened.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> $ buildbot checkconfig
>>>>> Do we have any tool that allows to check locally changes in the slaves
>>>>> configuration?
>>>>> 
>>>>> BR
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