[Python-Dev] Stable / unstable buildbots (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Aug 28 15:33:21 CEST 2008

Facundo Batista <facundobatista gmail.com> writes:

Maybe a good requisite to move a buildbot from unstable to stable is to find a champion for it. I mean, something that can test on that platform and cares enough about it to, or fix the issue himself/herself, or find who broke it and bother the responsible until it gets fixed.

By that metric, I fear that the only remaining buildbots would be the Linux/Windows x86/x64 ones. I'm not sure anyone here, for example, cares really much about Sparc buildbots, apart from the fact that having red "stable" buildbots doesn't make Python look very good, and we try to avoid that.

But then Python wouldn't be really cross-platform anymore, or just in a very theoretical way.

Also, lacking stable buildbots means some chunks of the language or stdlib aren't even tested anymore. For example, the bigmem/bigaddrspace tests are completely broken in the py3k branch.

Regards

Antoine.

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