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

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 15 May 2014 08:20:03 -0500
Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:05 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > Main problem with rare platform support is not breaking it accidentally,
> > since without buildbots we won't know when it's broken. This is why we don't
> > make any promises.
> 
> Should we (or do we) offer to run (unofficial) buildbots for
> maintainers of minority platforms where possible? For example, I have
> no idea if a buildbot for MirOS is even feasible, but if the guy who
> submitted the patch is amenable and it is possible to run a buildbot
> slave for that OS, it still might be useful to have a "one stop" place
> for this. If failing, such buildbots wouldn't block a release, but
> would still provide tools for people to track down the source of
> breakage.

We already have such buildbots, they are in the "unstable" category.
You can browse through existing buildbots here:
https://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/

In the case of MirOS, though, I'm unsure core developers would
proactively fix failures on such a niche platform :-)

Regards

Antoine.