Slack.io status plugin for Buildbot

This Buildbot plugin sends messages to a Slack.io channel when each build finishes with a handy link to the build results.

This plugin is based on the buildbot-status-hipchat plugin created by the dev team at http://www.pricingassistant.com/ ; Contributions are welcome!

Install

via pip

pip install -e git+https://github.com/mindmatters/buildbot-status-slack#egg=slack

manual

Copy slack.py next to your master.cfg file

Setup

Create a new Incomming Webhook in your slack account.

Then in your master.cfg, add the following:

import slack
c['status'].append(slack.SlackStatusPush("YOUR_SLACK_WEBURL"))

Additional Options:

  localhost_replace = False
  username = None
  icons = None
  notify_on_success = True
  notify_on_failure = True
  builders = None

Complete Example:

import slack
slack_status = slack.SlackStatusPush(
    "YOUR_SLACK_WEBURL",
    localhost_replace="http://ci.mindmatters.de",
    username="mindmatters Buildbot",
    icons=(':full_moon_with_face:', ':umbrella:'),
    notify_on_success=False,
    notify_on_failure=True,
)
c['status'].append(slack_status)

Enjoy!