K-T

> The user would initiate a web-based 'Forced-build' and provide, as web-form
> input, the series of branches to be used during the build. In general this
> would be the set of 'tickets/DM-#' on which the modifications were made.
> The users would need to note the *next* Buildbot build # in sequence to
> provide as the certificate. Alternately, the user would need to examine the
> end of the run's Buildbot log to provide the lsst_build build number -- if
> the build was successful.

Presumably we could automate that last step.

Yes.

> At the moment, Buildbot only
> notifies on error and even for errors it was planned to send the
> notification only, but more globally, to [lsst-data].

Ticket builds should *not* error to lsst-data. Only master/next
builds should, I would think.

That would be reasonable.

I'll write up a Jira Issue in due course.

Robyn