This is a slightly.. vain question, but BuildBot's output isn't particularly nice to look at..

For example, compared to..

• phpUnderControl
• Hudson
• CruiseControl.rb

..and others, BuildBot looks rather.. archaic

I'm currently playing with Hudson, but it is very Java-centric (although with this guide, I found it easier to setup than BuildBot, and produced more info)

Basically: is there any Continuous Integration systems aimed at python, that produce lots of shiney graphs and the likes?

Update: After trying a few alternatives, I think I'll stick with Hudson. Integrity was nice and simple, but quite limited. I think Buildbot is better suited to having numerous build-slaves, rather than everything running on a single machine like I was using it.

Setting Hudson up for a Python project was pretty simple:

• Download Hudson from https://hudson.dev.java.net/
• Run it with java -jar hudson.war
• Open the web interface on the default address of http://localhost:8080
• Go to Manage Hudson, Plugins, click "Update" or similar
• Install the Git plugin (I had to set the git path in the Hudson global preferences)
• Create a new project, enter the repository, SCM polling intervals and so on
• Install nosetests via easy_install if it's not already
• In the a build step, add nosetests --with-xunit --verbose
• Check "Publish JUnit test result report" and set "Test report XMLs" to **/nosetests.xml

That's all that's required. You can setup email notifications, and the plugins are worth a look. A few I'm currently using for Python projects:

• SLOCCount plugin to count lines of code (and graph it!) - you need to install sloccount separately
• Violations to parse the PyLint output (you can setup warning thresholds, graph the number of violations over each build)
• Cobertura can parse the coverage.py output. Nosetest can gather coverage while running your tests, using nosetests --with-coverage (this writes the output to **/coverage.xml)