[Python-Dev] SPARC testers (and buildbot!) needed

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Could someone with access to a SPARC machine (perhaps with a modern version
> of Debian-sparc) grab a clone from http://hg.python.org/cpython/ and run
> the test suite?

I'd invoke the "scratch your own itch" principle here. SPARC, these 
days, is a "minority platform"; I wouldn't mind deleting all SPARC 
support from Python in some upcoming release. In no way I feel obliged
to take efforts that Python 3.3 works on SPARC (and remember that it
was me who donated the first buildbot slave, and that was a SPARC
machine - which I now had to take down, ten years later).

Of course, when somebody has access to SPARC hardware, *and* they
have some interest that Python 3.3 works on it, they should test it.
But testing it as a favor to the community is IMO irrelevant now;
that particular community is shrinking rapidly.

What I personally really never cared about is SparcLinux;
if sparc, then it ought to be Solaris.

IOW: if it breaks, no big deal. Someone may or may not contribute
a patch.

Regards,
Martin