[Python-Dev] Community buildbots

[Terry Reedy]

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> On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:13:35 -0400, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>>Other developers do the same.  Periodically (once a week?), when PAT is
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>                                     "once per checkin to Python trunk"

If the average rate of checkins is equal to or greater than the maximum 
rate of test runs then that is physically impossible.  (Indeed, queueing 
theory suggests that  keeping the queue size small requires that the 
checkin be more like half the test rate.)  This appears to be currently 
true for the Python trunk buildbot and I would expect running the test of 
numerous large applications would take even longer, making the test rate 
even lower.  If you want something like twisted run against multiple Python 
versions a day, I suspect you will have to do so on a system you control.

Terry Jan Reedy