[Python-Dev] Community buildbots and Python release quality metrics (original) (raw)
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Jun 27 13🔞42 CEST 2008
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glyph at divmod.com wrote:
I do tend to ramble on, so here's an executive summary of my response: I want python developers to pay attention to the community buildbots and to treat breakages of existing projects as a serious issue.
Counter-proposal:
Interested developers or users of the major third party projects tested by the community buildbots should monitor the community buildbots, and start filing bug reports with the appropriate party as soon as the upcoming Python release hits 2.Xa1 (i.e. first alpha).
If the failure is due to an incompatibility between Python 2.X and 2.X-1, then the bug report should be filed against Python. While these issues may or may not be addressed before the first beta, they must be addressed before the first release candidate.
If the failure is due to an incompatibility between Python 2.X and 2.X-2 that was properly deprecated in 2.X-1, then the bug report should be filed against the third party project. Prioritising these is a question for the developers of that project.
Before filing a bug report against Python for a community buildbot failure, check if the relevant regression is also causing failures of the core buildbots. If it is, skip the bug report until the core buildbots are passing again.
It's currently a fact of life that we do NOT keep the trunk in an always-releasable state. We just don't. It might be nice if we did, there are lots of reasons why that's a good way to run a project, but at this point in time it isn't the case with Python. Reacting every time a community buildbot goes red would be a serious waste of effort.
Cheers, Nick.
-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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