Buildbot sprints are very informal affairs -- a table, usually Dustin, and some laptops. This is a great chance to get started hacking on Buildbot, do some pair-programming, or get help with a thorny coding problem.

Ideas

• If you know a lot about JavaScript, let's build some client-side smarts into the web interface
• If you want some practice with Twisted and Deferreds, Buildbot uses them heavily - stop by
• If you know a thing or two about Python on Windows, you can teach Buildbot to do a better job there
• If you have a Buildbot project you are working on, let's hack on that!
• ProjectIdeas lists some large-scale projects you could get started on during the sprint!

Here are some real projects and bugs you can work on:

Simple Tickets

("simple" here just means that it's good for a newcomer to Buildbot, because the bug doesn't require understanding more than one part of the code - it doesn't necessarily mean "easy")

#2464

gitpoller dying

#2467

source.SVN incorrectly handles repositories with special character in URL

#2473

using the branch option to choose a tag fails if using a git version older than 1.7.10

#2486

Property() is not rendered in {halt,flunk}OnFailure build step arguments

#2494

Clarify and document the default values for haltOnFailures, flunkOnWarnings, warnOnFailures, etc.

#2500

Options to the try command are not optional

#2501

Web status breakage when giving name=None buildstep to addStep()

#1729

Need indices on sourcestamps.branch, sourcestamps.revision

#2499

PBChangeSource doesn't drop changes when no files start with `prefix`

#419

No tests for buildbot.changes.hgbuildbot.py ?

Sprint Tickets

bugs that will (hopefully!) not take you more than a day to finish

#739

HTML logs are included in pickles

#1824

Dependent build depends on scheduler property

#2098

support for patches in master-side source steps

#68

New mechanism for monitoring buildbot startup

#97

Use svn switch to improve efficiency

#132

Use jinja for MailNotifier emails

#518

allow complete rebuild during force

#538

web server does not use gzip encoding

#921

buildmaster logging should be more segregated

#928

Allow builder to be associated with multiple categories

#984

per-project revlink

#1053

schedulerdb should have id columns on all tables

#1064

Logging ChangeFilter checks

#1790

Nightly scheduler should have an option to not re-schedule missed builds

#1795

add python script slave-side command

#1801

refactor slave/buildslave/runprocess.py

#1870

Nightly scheduler should support multiple branches.

#1884

transfer steps should include progress info

#1942

Allow slaves to be authenticated with other cred modules

#1999

Include full filename in warnings, if known

#2129

Support unix domain sockets for build slaves.

#2155

Change git submodule handling in incremental builds

#2176

buildslave hangs trying to kill process after "1200 seconds without output"

#2236

Experiment with loading config in a "rollback importer"

#2237

Schedulers should have names and reconfigService methods

#2259

Support a read-only backend db

#2297

Config-time checks for 'codebase' correctness

#2324

Please add the ability to automatically delete unused build directories

#2367

Commit messages limited to 1024 characters

#2432

Error shutting down latent buildslave

#2440

Write custom Sphinx support for config class definitions

#2441

Split documentation into more, smaller files

#2442

Generic polling utility with support for stopping a service

#2443

Generic way to collapse multiple calls to a function, with support for stopping

#2444

Document CacheManager, and remove its docstrings

#2445

test reconfig.py

#2446

Optimize test runs: test db and fake master

#2464

gitpoller dying

#2465

"retry" option for checking out sources seems obsolete

#2474

SVN step doesnt recover from 1.7 upgrade requirement

#2494

Clarify and document the default values for haltOnFailures, flunkOnWarnings, warnOnFailures, etc.

#595

RFE: Allow FileDownload from arbitrary file object

#738

Record true start/end time for build steps

#751

Sending SIGTERM before SIGKILL to a remote shell command that has timed out

#839

shell.Compile should invoke platform-specific compilation method

#1729

Need indices on sourcestamps.branch, sourcestamps.revision

#1748

Allow obfuscating passwords, etc. on the master

#1826

Periodic scheduler should not necessarily run at master startup

#1828

buildbot utilities should be separate package

#1997

Gather metrics on query times

#2112

Adding a large batch of changes seems to run at about 7 changes/s.

#2197

Add tests for web change_hooks.

#2217

Allow MailNotifier's messageFormatter to be asynchronous

#2228

Allow specific ForceSchedulers to be associated with specific WebStatuses.

#2273

Performance items

#2315

test_master.py tests change singal handling but don't restore state afterwards.

#2332

Add ability to SetProperty so that you can set a property without a command

#2381

SVN export method can't export single files

#2477

Create command line tool to get and search build step log files

#419

No tests for buildbot.changes.hgbuildbot.py ?

#2061

patch: make P4Poller pick up where it left off

#2185

GerritChangeSource: owner email can be missing

#2290

Solaris patch command is not compatible with GNU patch

Resources

• github project:  http://github.com/buildbot/buildbot
•  Forking a project on GitHub
• RunningBuildbotWithVirtualEnv - how to run buildbot locally for testing purposes