Buildbot Matrix Plugin

This Plugin for buildbot adds a reporter which sends notifications to a specified matrix room.

Inspired by buildbot-gitea by lab132.

Installation

pip install buildbot-matrix

This installs itself into buildbot, no extra imports required.

Setup

Matrix Bot

• Create a new Matrix user which will be used to send notifications.
• Set a meaningful display name for the user. For Example Buildbot Notifications
• Get an access token for this user.
• Add the user to the room you want the notifications to be in.

Buildbot

• Add this to the buildbot configuration:

c['services'] = [
	reporters.MatrixStatusPush(
		'https://homeserver.example.com',
		'ROOM_ID:example.com',
		'BOT_ACCESS_TOKEN',
		verbose=True
	)
]

• Change the URL of the homeserver to the homeserver you want to use.
• Replace BOT_ACCESS_TOKEN with the acces token of the matrix user, this can be a buildbot secret.
• Replace ROOM_ID with the id of the matrix room the bot should send the notifications to. Replace the ! at the beginning with %21.

Personalizing

You can modify the notifications by changing the following parameters:

Parameter	Description	Default
startDescription	Short description when a build started	Build started.
endDescription	Short description when a build ended	Build done.
context	Identifier to give messages a context	Interpolate('buildbot/%(prop:buildername)s')
context_pr	Identifier to give messages a context, used on pull requests	Interpolate('buildbot/pull_request/%(prop:buildername)s')
warningAsSuccess	Treat warnings as build success	False
onlyEndState	Only send a message if a build has ended	False