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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Jul 14 17:12:29 CEST 2006

Jeremy Hylton wrote:

When the slave suffers a real failure due to a backwards incompatibility, it will take a developer of the application to figure out what it was that broke the application's tests.

So while I think it's a great idea, I also think it will need significant support from the application developers in debugging any buildbot failures to really make it work. These buildbots should run the tests from stable, released versions of external packages, assuming that those packages don't ship releases with failing tests. If you ran the test suite for a Zope release and had a test failure, I think there would be a reasonable expectation that it was a Python bug.

Definitely, but there's a difference between "bug that broke Python's own unit tests" and "change to a behaviour that package X depended on".

It's the latter cases that the external buildbots would be looking for - and while some of those will be shallow enough that the regression is obvious from the unit test error message and the recent Python checkins, the non-obvious ones will require a collaborative resolution.

Cheers, Nick.

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