[Twisted-Python] to force-builds.py or not to force-builds.py

[Glyph]

> On Feb 7, 2015, at 6:49 AM, Adi Roiban <adi at roiban.ro> wrote:
> 
> On 19 November 2014 at 20:20, Glyph <glyph at twistedmatrix.com <mailto:glyph at twistedmatrix.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> On Nov 19, 2014, at 02:20, exarkun at twistedmatrix.com wrote:
>> 
>> Given that it already exists, I'm not sure it makes much sense to delete it.
>> Perhaps some folks prefer a workflow that is command-line oriented rather
>> than web-browser based.
>> 
>> I don't really feel very strongly about it, though.
>> 
>> 
>> I guess we should do two things, really:
>> 
>> 1. remove it from the onboarding documentation so there are fewer choices /
>> things to learn when getting started
>> 
>> 2. *add it* to some documentation for itself, so that people know how to use
>> it.
>> 
>> While in its current state it isn't really useful to me, I would _love_ to
>> be able to use this to spin off some tests ... if I could then view their
>> output on the command line as well, and not just have to hit a browser
>> immediately anyway :).
> 
> Here are my improvements:
> 
> https://github.com/twisted/twisted-dev-tools/pull/8 <https://github.com/twisted/twisted-dev-tools/pull/8>
> 
> Please, please merge
> https://github.com/twisted/twisted-dev-tools/pull/4 <https://github.com/twisted/twisted-dev-tools/pull/4> or
> https://github.com/twisted/twisted-dev-tools/pull/7 <https://github.com/twisted/twisted-dev-tools/pull/7>

I've merged 4.

> I also wanted to update the tools to show status in command line and
> run a specific test/tests just like you would run trial on local
> system (without -b) ... but for next ticket.

That would be amazing; thank you.

> For my project I have a similar tool which just runs a background
> thread and pipes the output of last builbot web status log into the
> console.

I've wanted this for years :-D.

> It is ok for test which take a few second, but for test that take
> 40minutes I found email notifications much useful.

Can you have the command line tool request those as well?

-g
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