Hello! Thank you for reaching out, and for your long service to the project!
Your worker will be useful as long as you can/want to run it -- for anyone who runs Python on any Intel Mac or older macOS version. CPython just dropped support for macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and earlier in 3.12.6 and 3.13; Monterey is 5 years newer. If your worker goes offline, we'll be looking for a replacement -- perhaps a slightly newer Intel Mac.
There's no immediate need for a M1 worker: Pablo has been running one for 9 months now: https://buildbot.python.org/#/workers/44
On 31. 10. 24 4:10, Matt Billenstein via Python-Buildbots wrote:
Hi,
Regarding worker https://buildbot.python.org/#/workers/17 - this is a mid-2015 Macbook Pro; the latest macOS release it can run is Monterey first released in 2021 (12.7.6 currently).
I just put I think the third battery in it about a year ago, so my guess is I could keep it in service another 3-4 years (they swell and go bad after about 4 years), but I'm wondering is a system this old still valuable to the project? Or for how long? I have a newer M1 Macbook Pro I could replace it with or add to the fleet.
Please advise on what's useful to the project. Happy to keep it going, replace it, or just add the newer M1.
thx
m
Cool, will keep it alive ;)
thx
m
On Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 11:52:50AM +0100, Petr Viktorin wrote:
Hello! Thank you for reaching out, and for your long service to the project!
Your worker will be useful as long as you can/want to run it -- for anyone who runs Python on any Intel Mac or older macOS version. CPython just dropped support for macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and earlier in 3.12.6 and 3.13; Monterey is 5 years newer. If your worker goes offline, we'll be looking for a replacement -- perhaps a slightly newer Intel Mac.
There's no immediate need for a M1 worker: Pablo has been running one for 9 months now: https://buildbot.python.org/#/workers/44
On 31. 10. 24 4:10, Matt Billenstein via Python-Buildbots wrote:
Hi,
Regarding worker https://buildbot.python.org/#/workers/17 - this is a mid-2015 Macbook Pro; the latest macOS release it can run is Monterey first released in 2021 (12.7.6 currently).
I just put I think the third battery in it about a year ago, so my guess is I could keep it in service another 3-4 years (they swell and go bad after about 4 years), but I'm wondering is a system this old still valuable to the project? Or for how long? I have a newer M1 Macbook Pro I could replace it with or add to the fleet.
Please advise on what's useful to the project. Happy to keep it going, replace it, or just add the newer M1.
thx
m
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