[Python-Dev] Windows

[Tim Golden]

On 04/08/2010 05:34, Mark Hammond wrote:
> On 4/08/2010 11:08 AM, Steve Holden wrote:
>> It's a little disappointing to discover that despite the relatively
>> large number of developers who have received MSDN licenses from
>> Microsoft, none if us have the time to make sure that the buildbots are
>> green for the 2.6.6 release.
>>
>> I wonder if anyone can think of a way we can get some Windows skillz
>> into the group that could assist at ties like this. Some brainstorming
>> might find a way through.
>
> I never go looking at the buildbots to look for problems - maybe some
> way of explicitly bringing such failures to peoples attention would be
> good

Agree with that. This page looks hopeful:

   http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/

with Atom/RSS feeds and an XML-RPC interface. I've subscribed to the
RSS feeed which is -- from my perspective -- quite noisy. One could
do something with the xml-rpc according to this:

   http://buildbot.net/buildbot/docs/0.7.11/#XMLRPC-server

but does anyone know how easy it would be use setup a mail notifier
to go to a specific Python mailing list on failure? I've looked at
mail.python.org and Googled around and I can't see something which
already does this, but I'm very happy to be wrong...

There seems to be some previous discussion:

   http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-October/069617.html

but no sign of an outcome.

TJG