The buildbot waterfall is much greener now. Thanks to all who have contributed to making it so (and it hasn't just been Mark and Antoine and I, though we've been the most directly active (and yes, Mark, you did contribute several fixes!)). The 'stable builders' fleet is green now except for: (1) issue 7269: occasional 2.6/trunk bsddb3 failures on windows (2) issue 6748: random 3.1/3.x failures on most buidbots. (3) the klose-debian-ppc builder being offline Of these, (2) is by _far_ the biggest issue, and the one that causes the most flap (success-failure-success). And flap is the thing that most harms the buildbot usefulness. Anyone who wants to debug this on a platform where it is consistently reproducible please email me your public key and I'll give you a shell account on my buildbot (Antoine already has one). In the 'unstable' builder fleet, Antoine's new builder seems to be stable across the board, while mine fails consistently on 3.1 and 3.x because of the test_telnetlib bug. Thomas Heller's OS X buildbot is consistently having lots of test failures (the same ones each time I've checked). The master claims the klose-debian-alpha buildbot doesn't know about branches, which is odd since it was working not too long ago. The remaining buildslaves appear to have been offline for some time. Open issues here are: (1) issue 3864: FreeBSD testing hangs consistently. According to the ticket this is a FreeBSD bug fixed in 6.4, so an OS upgrade on the buildslave would probably solve it. (2) issue 4970: consistent signal 32 error on the norwitz-x86 Gentoo buildslave in 3.1 and 3.x. This may be due to the box running an old threading library, but it does make one wonder what changed in 3.x that exposed it. Another issue that I've seen on the buildbots but that doesn't seem to be showing up right now (is it fixed?) is issue 7251, which Mark is working on. So, overall I think the buildbot fleet is in good shape, and if we can nail issue 6748 I think it will be back to being an important resource for sanity checking our checkins. By the way, Georg set up the IRC interface on the #python-dev channel, so you can hang out there if you want to get realtime reports of which buildbots have going from success to failure and vice versa. --David