[Python-buildbots] Preparing for the GitHub migration

[Zachary Ware]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Zachary Ware
<zachary.ware+pydev at gmail.com> wrote:
> We're a bit past due for an update [of the master], so I'm going to try
> to find time this weekend to both upgrade our master and try out
> GitHub integration.  Changing the source for the builders will be
> simple once the master is looking at GitHub instead of hg.python.org.

Phase one of this plan is complete, the master is updated to buildbot
0.8.14+ (0.8.14 isn't actually tagged in github.com/buildbot/buildbot,
so I just took the head of their 'eight' branch and called it
0.8.14py1).  It's a fairly clean slate; I opted not to keep any of the
existing history, though it's still available for now if I'm
overruled.  I forward-ported most of our patches, but at least one of
them did not survive the transition from 'categories' to 'tags', so
builder ordering is significantly different in just about every view
now.

I haven't had a chance to do any testing with GitHub integration, but
it should be much simpler with an up-to-date master.  I'll try to take
a shot at that next weekend, along with some other tweaks to the
master config that are now possible with 0.8.14.

-- 
Zach