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

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting. Chromium has something kind-of similar, named "commit queue",
> for developers without actual commit access. Once they get an LGTM, the
> thing rolls automatically. In fact, core developers often find it useful too
> because the Chromium tree is sometimes closed ("red"). We don't really 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.

Another interesting (and relevant, I think) concept from the Mozilla
community is the Try Server, where you can push a work-in-progress
patch to see how it does on all the platforms. I.e. it runs all the
same tests that build slaves run, but the repository it works against
isn't accessible publicly, so you can try your work without breaking
the main tree.

Cheers,

Dirkjan