[Python-Dev] Where is our official policy of what platforms we do support?

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed May 14 2014 at 11:02:50 AM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, 14 May 2014 11:31:15 -0300, "Joao S. O. Bueno" <
> jsbueno at python.org.br> wrote:
> > +1 for an official policy that comes with a "permanent maintainer for
> > this platform required"  as part of the list
> > of requisites.
> >
> >   js
> >  -><-
> >
> > On 14 May 2014 11:20, Brett Cannon <bcannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Over the past week or so there have been 2 patches to add support for
> > > various UNIX OSs. Now I thought we had stopped trying to add new
> esoteric
> > > OSs (e.g. I had never heard of MirOS until the patch for it came in),
> but I
> > > can't find a PEP that spells out what it takes to get a platform
> supported
> > > (http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/ is about removing
> platforms,
> > > not keeping them or adding them unless you are re-adding one which
> > > apparently just takes a volunteer).
> > >
> > > Do we want an official policy written down in a PEP (yes, I can write
> it)?
> > > Should I keep closing these patches and saying that we are not adding
> > > support for new operating systems and be hand-wavy about it?
>
> In addition to a maintainer (who I think doesn't have to be a committer,
> though that would be ideal), I think a maintained buildbot should be a
> requirement for formal support.
>

I would think someone how is/would be a core dev and a *stable* buildbot
are requirements.
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