On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 12:51 PM Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev python-dev@python.org wrote:
IIRC I suggested earlier that buildsbots should be integrated into the PR workflow in order to make it the contributor's rather than a core dev's burden to fix any breakages that result from their changes.
Some buildbot worker take 2 to 3 hours per build. Also, it would not scale. Buildbots are not fast enough to handle the high number of PR and PR updates.
When there is clear relationship between a buildbot failure and a merged PR, a comment is added automatically showing the failed test and explanation how to investigate the issue. It's there for 2 years thanks to Pablo, and so far, I rarely saw developers paying attention to these failures. They just ignore it.
I'm not trying to blame anyone. Contributing to Python requires a lot of free time. I'm only trying to explain in length what does the "maintenance burden" mean in practice, since some people are pretending that supporting a platform is free.
Victor