[Python-Dev] Snakebite, buildbot and low hanging fruit -- feedback wanted! (Was Re: SSH access against buildbot boxes)

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 06:24:59 -0500
Trent Nelson <trent at snakebite.org> wrote:
> (And if we feel like bringing IRIX/MIPS 
> and Tru64/Alphas back as primary platforms, we've got the hardware to do 
> that, too ;-).)

Unless you want to rename your project zombiebite, it would probably be
better not to resurrect those old corpses.
(I'm talking about the OSes, not the chips)

> Of course there's a third option, which is using the infrastructure I've 
> mentioned to address a similarly annoying pain point I haven't thought 
> of -- so feel free to mention anything else you'd like to see first 
> instead of the above two things.

I'm sure there are various special builds that could be useful. One is
a build with heavy resource consumption (lots of RAM, lots of disk) if
there's a machine which can handle that.

Another is testing memory leaks on all 3 branches (I have a daily
script which does that for 3.x on my personal server).

Perhaps there could even be some automated fuzzing if Victor is looking
for something to do on his free time :)

Regards

Antoine.