[Numpy-discussion] A buildbot farm with shell access - for free ?

[Damian Eads]

Sounds like a great idea!

On 1/28/09, David Cournapeau <david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     Just saw that on one ML:
>
> http://www.snakebite.org/
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2009-January/000331.html
>
> Bottom line: it looks like there is a set of machines which were donated
> to the PSF for buildbot *with shell access* so that people can fix
> problems appearing on some platforms. If you look at the email, there
> are some 'exotic' machines that mere mortals cannot have access to (like
> True64 on Itanium: to quote the email "massive quad Itanium 2 RX-5670s,
> chock full of 73GB 15k disks and no less than 78GB of RAM between the
> two servers; 32GB in one and 46GB in the other"). There are also windows
> machines available.
>
> It is said in the email that this is reserved to the python project, and
> prominent python projects like Twisted and Django. Would it be ok to try
> to be qualified as a prominent python project as well ?
>
> cheers,
>
> David
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