[Python-Dev] Community buildbots

[Terry Reedy]

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> On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:27:56 -0500, skip at pobox.com wrote:
>
>>The buildbot idea sounds excellent.
>
> Thanks.  If someone can set this up, it pretty much addresses my 
> concerns.
> ...
> I am aware of when new releases come out :).  What I'm not aware of is 
> what
> features (may) have broken my code, and why.  As long as Python's 
> trunk at HEAD
> continues to run the test suites cleanly, I am mostly unconcerned.  When 
> it
> breaks, though, I want a chance to look at the cause of the breakage, 
> *before*
> there is an alpha or beta Python release out and people are starting to 
> write
> code that depends on its new features.

Is the following something like what you are suggesting?

A Python Application Testing (PAT) machine is set up with buildbot and any 
needed custom scripts.  Sometime after that and after 2.5 is released, when 
you have a version of, for instance, Twisted that passes its automated test 
suite when run on 2.5, you send it (or a URL) and an email address to PAT. 
Other developers do the same.  Periodically (once a week?), when PAT is 
free and a new green development version of either the 2.5.x or 2.6 
branches is available, PAT runs the test suites against that version.  An 
email is sent for any that fail, perhaps accompanied by the concatenation 
of the relevant checkin message.  Some possible options are to select just 
one of the branches for testing, to have more than one stable version being 
tested, and to receive pass emails.

Terry Jan Reedy