These are ongoing attempts to improve Buildbot which do not correspond to a single component.

• reconfig - support for smooth reconfiguration (7 open tickets)
• encoding - better handling for character encodings (3 open tickets)
• loadbalancing - balancing load among slaves (1 open tickets)
• docs - improving documentation (12 open tickets)
• database - database support, and eliminating pickles (19 open tickets)
• buildcoord - coordinating between builds (5 open tickets)
• projrepo - project and repository attributes (4 open tickets)
• kill - better support for killing processes on the slave (4 open tickets)
• tests - more and better tests (11 open tickets)
• admin - buildbot.net administration AdminProject (4 open tickets)