[Python-Dev] Stable / unstable buildbots

[Antoine Pitrou]

Facundo Batista <facundobatista <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Maybe a good requisite to move a buildbot from unstable to stable is
> to find a champion for it. I mean, something that can test on that
> platform and cares enough about it to, or fix the issue
> himself/herself, or find who broke it and bother the responsible until
> it gets fixed.

By that metric, I fear that the only remaining buildbots would be the
Linux/Windows x86/x64 ones. I'm not sure anyone here, for example, cares really
much about Sparc buildbots, apart from the fact that having red "stable"
buildbots doesn't make Python look very good, and we try to avoid that.

But then Python wouldn't be really cross-platform anymore, or just in a very
theoretical way.

Also, lacking stable buildbots means some chunks of the language or stdlib
aren't even tested anymore. For example, the bigmem/bigaddrspace tests are
completely broken in the py3k branch.

Regards

Antoine.