[Python-Dev] Regular scheduled releases (original) (raw)

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Sat Oct 30 14:29:15 CEST 2010

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 14:09, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

I don't feel like producing a complete list of build steps; the entire process takes about four hours.

So is most of this scripted, or is there just a process in your head?

The steps that are difficult to automate are: - code signing - testing the resulting installer - uploading

Why are those steps difficult to automate? I'd think that uploading is just some ftp commands. Signing might be a thing because you don't want the keys distributed. Testing the resulting installer could probably be automated in part, and people could still download the nightlies to do more testing.

However, in a significant number of releases, some of the build steps failed, so it requires some investigation to find the source of the problem.

Well, sure, but if we do continuous builds we find failures like that sooner.

Cheers,

Dirkjan

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