Wow.

I have been really involved in Plone for about one year now. This community just rocks. I met incredible guys, and did tons of work and experiments with them.

I have asked the community for help to go to the Plone Conf with a fund raising. I raised the funds in 3 days… I am astonished, this is a marvelous gift from you guys. I alsmot cried when I saw all those people donating.

I am so lucky, and so proud to be part of the Plone community and to know all of you. I will work hard to produce the best tutorial I can for the Plone Conf, and continue of course my work in the community tasks I am currently involved in.

I would like to say a big, warm thank to (the order is chronological, from the latest donation to the first one):

• Andreas Jung
• Veda Williams
• David Glick
• Jeff Kowalczyk
• Youenn Boussard
• Christian Klinger
• Jesse Snyder
• Alec Mitchell
• John Habermann
• Maurits van Rees
• Jean-François Roche
• Martin Aspeli
• Alain Meurant
• Aleksandr Vladimirskiy
• Jon Stahl
• Alexander Limi
• Stephen McMahon

And a very special thanks to Calvin Hendryx-Parker.

This conference will be a blast for sure, if you can go there, do it !

Now I better find a good idea for those T-Shirts I have promised ! …

The Pimp my Buildbot project that was started here at Ingeniweb some time ago, to be able to set up a buildbot in a matter of minutes with zc.buildout, was continued during the sprint, and the guys did a great job on it.

It will be used here in customer projects with a Paster that adds buildbot support when a project starts, because it is a waste of time for the developers to set everything everytime.

Jean-Francois Roche, Kai Lautaportti and Gael Pasgrimaud added extensive configuration options (mail, scheduling), and made the SVN Poller works. This feature allows for instance to make the buildbot watch a SVN repository without having to add a hook in the server (post-commit hook for instance), when you don’t own it (SourceForge, collective, etc)

The tool is released in the collective, and available at the Cheeseshop in one single package !

If you want to set a buildbot

• provide for each one of your project a buildout that has a test script
• make sure the test script returns exit code (–with-exit-status with zope.testing)
• create a buildout cfg file using collective.buildbot
• run buildout, that’s it !
• run the master, slaves scripts, and go to the /waterfall page

Just try out our own buildbot by running this sequence:

$ cd /tmp/
$ mkdir my_bot
$ cd my_bot/
$ svn co https://ingeniweb.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ingeniweb/buildbot/trunk .
$ python bootstrap.py
$ bin/buildout
$ bin/master start
$ bin/linux_debian start   (that's our slave)

You should have a buildbot running then at http://localhost:9000/waterfall

The tool, without the polling stuff, also works with Mercurial and Bzr, but probably needs more tests with these repositories. We also need to make sure the slaves works fine under Windows, and add a nice front page to the buildbot.

If you use it let us know !