Recent versions of buildbot, the continuous integration framework don’t allow by default the force build feature.
This feature can be used to start a build on demand. It is really useful when you’ve updated the build procedure or when you want to test new branches.
It was a little tricky to add it, so I decided to share it. If c is the name of the configuration you build in your master.cfg, you can add after all builders declarations:
from buildbot.schedulers.forcesched import *
c['schedulers'].append(ForceScheduler(name="force",
builderNames = [ builder.getConfigDict()['name'] for builder in c['builders'] ]))
As was saying one of my physic teacher: “easy when you’ve done it once”.