[Python-Dev] Most 3.x buildbots are green again, please don't break them and watch them! (original) (raw)

Stefan Krah stefan at bytereef.org
Wed Apr 13 09:13:07 EDT 2016

Victor Stinner <victor.stinner gmail.com> writes:

Maybe it's time to move more 3.x buildbots to the "stable" category? http://buildbot.python.org/all/waterfall?category=3.x.stable

+1 I think anything that is actually stable should be in that category.

By the way, I don't understand why "AMD64 OpenIndiana 3.x" is considered as stable since it's failing with multiple issues since many months and nobody is working on these failures. I suggest to move this buildbot back to the unstable category.

+1 The bot was very stable and fast for some time but has been unstable for at least a year.

- PPC64 AIX 3.x: failing tests: testhttplib, testhttpservers, testsocket, testdistutils, testasyncio, (...); random timeout failure in testeintr, etc. I don't have access to AIX and I'm not interested to acquire an AIX license, nor to install it. I'm not sure that it's useful to have an AIX buildbot and no core developer have access to AIX, and nobody is working on AIX failures. Maybe HP wants to help us to support AIX? (Provide manpower, access to AIX servers, or something like that.)

Well, I think in this case it's the gcc AIX maintainer running it, so...

I think we should have a policy to stop reporting issues on unstable bots unless someone has a concrete fix OR the bot maintainers are known to fix issues fast (but that does not seem to be the case).

Stefan Krah

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