Windows Process Management

[dustin]

The windows tag documents a number of bugs about starting and killing processes on Windows. Buildbot uses Twisted's process-handling code, so these bugs may be fixed by either re-implementing better support directly in Buildbot, or by patching Twisted's process-handling code.

See also:

• ​http://trac.buildbot.net/tags/%27kill%27

Scope

To do well with this project, you would need to bring a lot of the Windows experience that is lacking in the Buildbot development community. Assuming you're familiar with Windows APIs and accessing them from Python, this bug would entail

• writing test cases to reproduce bugs users have seen
• interacting with the Twisted community to design solutions that can be merged upstream
• implementing portable fixes to those bugs
• documenting them

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[dustin]

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