[python-committers] PEP 462: Workflow automation for CPython

[Eli Bendersky]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 6:14 AM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 05:49:56 -0800, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > do the latter in Python, which carries a problem we'll probably need to
> > resolve first - how to know that the bots are green enough. That really
> > needs human attention.
>
> By "that needs human attention", do you mean: dealing with the remaining
> flaky tests, so that "stable buildbots are green" is a binary decision?
> We strive for that now, but Nick's proposal would mean we'd have to
> finally buckle down and complete the work.  I'm sure we'd make some new
> flaky tests at some point, but in this future they'd become show-stoppers
> until they were fixed.  I think this would be a good thing, overall :)
>

Non-flakiness of bots is a holy grail few projects attain. If your bots are
consistently green with no flakes, it just means you're not testing enough
:-)

Eli
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