[Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general) (original) (raw)

David Stanek dstanek at dstanek.com
Wed Aug 4 18:21:21 CEST 2010

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

The hard part is to know when to look.  As you might have noticed, the Python test suite does not run in ten seconds, especially on some of the buildbots -- it can take 1-2 there to complete.  So if you look too soon, you won't see all the results, and usually the slow systems are the interesting ones. Now we could of course have a commit hook that counts down two hours and then sends an email to the committer "Now look at the buildbot!"...

Why not have buildbot slaves email the committer when their change broke the build. I realize that if you break 25 slaves it would not be pleasant to receive 25 emails, but I've had worse things happen. Or buildbot slaves can report failures to a mailing list or IRC chat.

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