[Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

[C. Titus Brown]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:21:18PM +0200, Mario wrote:
-> > He says vague things about patches too, but I'm not sure what.  If he
-> > wanted to make that into a 'patchbot' that just applied every patch in
-> > isolation and ran 'make && make test' and posted results in the
-> > tracker I'd be a happy camper.
-> >
-> Jack, how about you write that idea down on the wiki page mentioned in the
-> proposal, along with the use case? Following that, I'll see if I can do
-> anything about it to make it a reality.

We had a GSoC student two years back who worked on something like this;
his name is Michal Kwiatkowski.  He probably has the code working
somewhere.

It's a nontrivial problem if you want to do it properly with VMs etc.

cheers,
--titus
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu