[Python-Dev] thinking about 2.7

[exarkun at twistedmatrix.com]

On 06:03 pm, brett at python.org wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 07:35, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> 
>wrote:
>[snip]
>>
>>Additionally, I'm very apprehensive about doing any kind of release
>>without the buildbots running. Does anyone know when they might be up?
>
>I don't know the answer, but it might be "never". We used to do
>releases without them, so it's not impossible. Just means you have to
>really push the alphas, betas, and RCs.
>
>Titus Brown is actually working on a buildbot alternative that's more
>volunteer-friendly (pony-build). Hopefully that will be up and going
>by then so we can contemplate using that.

I certainly wish Titus luck in his project, but I'm skeptical about 
pony-build magically fixing the problems CPython development has with 
buildbot.

Jean-Paul