Try functionality

[GoogleCodeExporter]

In our abstract, we referenced the buildbot "try" functionality as being
functional.  It occurs to me that:
 * this is not done
 * this likely requires some sort of "source" class on the client to implement

As the reader may or may not be aware, we don't have a "source" step
anymore, having turned to a normal shell step for cws.  This eliminated
changes to the buildbot proper code, but does perhaps put a wrench in the
works.  It may be possible to abuse an existing source class to perform
this operation without being responsible for source checkout.  It may also
be possible to implement this without using a source class, but that
remains to be seen

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 15 Sep 2007 at 3:59

[GoogleCodeExporter]

http://buildbot.net/repos/release/docs/buildbot.html#try has some information 
about the buildbot's way of 
configuring this. They seem to have thought a lot about security, since a patch 
could do something in the build 
process that could do something detrimental to the bot that the patch is 
running on.

Original comment by [email protected] on 8 Nov 2007 at 10:12

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Original comment by [email protected] on 18 Aug 2008 at 11:05

• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect, Milestone-OOoCon