[Python-Dev] Community buildbots (was Re: User's complaints) (original) (raw)

A.M. Kuchling amk at amk.ca
Thu Jul 13 20:42:55 CEST 2006

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 02:03:22PM -0400, glyph at divmod.com wrote:

I would like to propose, although I certainly don't have time to implement, a program by which Python-using projects could contribute buildslaves which would run their projects' tests with the latest Python trunk.

An excellent idea!

It's a constant source of anxiety to me that I might miss some key feature addition to Python which breaks or distorts some key bit of Twisted functionality (as the new-style exceptions, or recent ImportWarning almost did) because I don't have enough time to follow all the threads here.

So don't read threads -- just try the alphas and betas! The "What's New" documents have a 'porting' section that flags changes that may require application changes, but items are added only if I think of them or if someone suggests them (e.g. generator.gi_frame can be None in Python 2.5 -- I would never have thought people would have code that broke because of this).

While the new python.org is very nice, I do note that there's no "blogs" entry on the front page, something which has become a fixture on almost every other website I visit regularly.

A 'Blogs' link could be trivially added by linking to planet.python.org, though the blogs collected there are not in any way 'the Python developers', but a jumble of developers and users. I don't think enough core developers have weblogs (or write about Python) to make a 'python-dev only' planet very useful.

mainly a listing of releases and events. There's no forum for getting the community excited about new features (especially new features which are explicitly enabled by potential breakages), and selling them on the cool uses.

I think the venue for this would be weblog entries or news sites such as oreillynet.com. I do worry that we don't have enough people writing articles and things, but have no idea how to encourage people to write more.

--amk

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