14 Aug
2008
14 Aug
'08
4:50 a.m.
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On Aug 14, 2008, at 12:16 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I don't have experience with PQM or something like it, but I suspect it doesn't scale, and the buildbots are a better approach, because they handle multiple platforms.
Just quickly because I've touched on most of these issues in previous
responses, and I'm pretty damn tired right now. ;)
- Code reviews: +1 I agree with everything you said here Guido.
- Buildbots: good for what they do, but because they're reactive (and
in our case, quite often not working) they don't solve a problem,
they're an indicator of the problem
- Buildbots: good for what they do, but because they're reactive (and
- PQM: right, doesn't scale across multiple platforms, but still
valuable. Guards against broken mainline affecting everybody. E.g.
would have caught the multiprocessing bug that delayed an earlier
release affecting at least Linux and OS X.
- PQM: right, doesn't scale across multiple platforms, but still
- All three can work together to solve different parts of the problem.
None (IMHO) are enough on their own. I'm skeptical that reviews +
buildbots are enough.
- All three can work together to solve different parts of the problem.
-Barry
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