[Python-Dev] Community buildbots (was Re: User's complaints)

[Fredrik Lundh]

Neal Norwitz wrote:

> This is the part I don't get.  For the external developers, if they
> care about compatibility, why aren't they testing periodically,
> regardless of alpha/beta releases?

because they don't want to waste time and effort on testing against 
releases that are not necessarily a close approximation of the full
release?  testing takes time, and time can be used for many different 
things.

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