[Python-Dev] Windows

[Ezio Melotti]

  On 04/08/2010 11.36, Tim Golden wrote:
> 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
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FWIW there's also http://code.google.com/p/bbreport/source/checkout
We were planning to use bbreport to create weekly summary and mail them 
to python-dev, but someone should write some code (I could do that but 
it's quite low in my to-do list) and make it run once a week.

Best Regards,
Ezio Melotti