Unfriendly HEAD is unfriendly

[Claus Reinke]

> 2. BuildBot can't cope with dropped connections in the middle of a build. 
> Again I have a ticket open against BuildBot but fixing it apparently 
> requires large amounts of infrastructure refactoring, so it's currently 
> scheduled for the next-but-one major release of BuildBot, which could be 
> months or years away.

at least it has "major" priority.. http://buildbot.net/trac/ticket/25

I'm not familiar with buildbot internals, but would it be possible
to work around this by turning a continuous "build" task into two
tasks - "start a build" and "report any build results" (with the build
running unconnected in between, and the "report" task simply
collecting any and all reports that have piled up locally)?

Claus