[Python-Dev] Possible language summit topic: buildbots

[exarkun at twistedmatrix.com]

On 25 Oct, 09:36 pm, db3l.net at gmail.com wrote:
>
>I think the other issue most likely to cause a perceived "downtime"
>with the Windows build slave that I've had a handful of cases over the
>past two years where the build slave appears to be operating properly,
>but the master seems to just queue up jobs as if it were down.  The
>slave still shows an established TCP link to the master, so I
>generally only catch this when I happen to peek at the status web
>page, or catch a remark here on python-dev, so that can reduce
>availability.

This sounds like something that should be reported upstream. 
Particularly if you know how to reproduce it.  Has it been?

Jean-Paul