[Python-Dev] My thinking about the development process

[Nick Coghlan]

On 6 December 2014 at 11:39, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> Maybe our infrastructure folks will have a thought or two about this?
>> I'm willing to put some work into this if we can figure out what
>> direction to head in.  It could well be tied in to moving
>> bugs.python.org in with the rest of our infrastructure, something I know
>> Donald has been noodling with off and on; and I'm willing to help with
>> that as well.
>
> Theoretically you could create a dev environment with the psf-salt stuff
> once it’s actually done. It won’t be the most efficient use of your computer
> resources because it’d expect to run several vagrant VMs locally but it would
> also match “production” (in a salt-ified world) better. It wouldn’t be as
> good as a dedicated dev setup for it, but it would probably be better than
> a sort of “yea here’s a bunch of steps that sort of get you close YOLO”.

For demonstrating UI changes, either a single VM Vagrant setup
specifically for testing, or else something that works in the free
tier of a public PaaS may be a better option. The advantage of those
two approaches is that they'd be potentially acceptable as
contributions to the upstream Roundup project, rather than needing to
be CPython specific.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia