http://oduinn.com/blog/2008/06/26/de-tangling-timestamps-part2/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:19:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://oduinn.com/blog/2008/06/26/de-tangling-timestamps-part2/#comment-8741 John O’Duinn’s Soapbox » De-tangling timestamps: part3 - the new BuildID! Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:00:42 +0000 http://oduinn.com/2008/06/26/de-tangling-timestamps-part2/#comment-8741 [...] the Tinderbox, Builds, Unittest, Talos and GraphServer systems all needed ways to uniquely identify builds, so each system invented their own (different!) way of doing this… all because the old BuildID was not good enough. Matching up these different systems - how to post a talos result on tinderbox for example - is quite a headache. We’ve already done some cleanup (here and here), but this new BuildID should let us simplify *much* more of that cross-system integration. [...] [...] the Tinderbox, Builds, Unittest, Talos and GraphServer systems all needed ways to uniquely identify builds, so each system invented their own (different!) way of doing this… all because the old BuildID was not good enough. Matching up these different systems – how to post a talos result on tinderbox for example – is quite a headache. We’ve already done some cleanup (here and here), but this new BuildID should let us simplify *much* more of that cross-system integration. [...]

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