[Python-Dev] Community buildbots

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On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:13:35 -0400, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

>Is the following something like what you are suggesting?

Something like it, but...

>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
                                              ^
                                     "once per checkin to Python trunk"
>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.

Sending email also isn't really necessary; I would just like a web page I can
look at (and draw the attention of the python core developers to).