Re: [Python-Dev] Triage of old tracker bugs: Any use?

2007-08-28 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Is doing this sort of triage or administration work useful? Any > recommendations on what you'd like to have happen in this sort of task? Down-grading things that were once high-priority is certainly reasonable. Of the very old bugs, it would be useful to find out whether they are still reprod

Re: [Python-Dev] Other SSL issues in the tracker have been marked

2007-08-28 Thread Neal Norwitz
Bill, Please mail your ssh key as an attachment to [EMAIL PROTECTED] n -- On 8/28/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Bill, > > I think it's time you get to do your own checkins. There's a protocol > but I forget how to do it -- I think you mail your ssh key to Martin. > > --Gui

Re: [Python-Dev] Avoiding cascading test failures

2007-08-28 Thread Collin Winter
On 8/22/07, Alexandre Vassalotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I was fixing tests failing in the py3k branch, I found the number > duplicate failures annoying. Often, a single bug, in an important > method or function, caused a large number of testcase to fail. So, I > thought of a simple mecha

Re: [Python-Dev] Other SSL issues in the tracker have been marked

2007-08-28 Thread Guido van Rossum
Hi Bill, I think it's time you get to do your own checkins. There's a protocol but I forget how to do it -- I think you mail your ssh key to Martin. --Guido On 8/28/07, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, the patch is attached to issue 1052. I sent it out to python-dev, > but it got b

Re: [Python-Dev] Other SSL issues in the tracker have been marked

2007-08-28 Thread Bill Janssen
So, the patch is attached to issue 1052. I sent it out to python-dev, but it got blocked (too big). http://bugs.python.org/file8352/ssl-patch-5 This contains a number of things: 1) Improve the documentation of the SSL module, with a fuller explanation of certificate usage, another reference,

Re: [Python-Dev] test_calendar broken on trunk

2007-08-28 Thread Walter Dörwald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On the community trunk buildbots this checkin: > >1. > > Changed by: walter.doerwald > Changed at: Tue 28 Aug 2007 16:38:27 > Branch: trunk > Revision: 57620 > > Changed files: > * trunk/Doc/library/calendar.rst >

Re: [Python-Dev] Other SSL issues in the tracker have been marked

2007-08-28 Thread Bill Janssen
> Well, that's just what you get with two independent implementations of > a spec. We don't try to hide the differences between the sockets stack > in Unix and Windows -- you'll just have to work around it. No problem. But I think it's still a bug -- the "spec" (where is it?) should say what we w

Re: [Python-Dev] Other SSL issues in the tracker have been marked

2007-08-28 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 8/28/07, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problematic test is this one: > > > > File > > "C:\buildbot_py25\trunk.mcintyre-windows\build\lib\test\test_ssl.py", line > > 77, in testSSLconnect > > s.connect(("pop.gmail.com", 995)) > > File "C:\buildbot_py25\trunk.mcintyre

Re: [Python-Dev] Triage of old tracker bugs: Any use?

2007-08-28 Thread skip
Sean> I kind of figure that something that's in "high" priority, that Sean> has been sitting there for 46 months, either needs to have some Sean> activity on it or should be pushed to a lower priority. Note that it might have been high priority for the submitter. That doesn't necessa

Re: [Python-Dev] Other SSL issues in the tracker have been marked

2007-08-28 Thread Bill Janssen
> The problematic test is this one: > > File "C:\buildbot_py25\trunk.mcintyre-windows\build\lib\test\test_ssl.py", > line 77, in testSSLconnect > s.connect(("pop.gmail.com", 995)) > File "C:\buildbot_py25\trunk.mcintyre-windows\build\lib\ssl.py", line 170, > in connect > if self._s

Re: [Python-Dev] Triage of old tracker bugs: Any use?

2007-08-28 Thread Brett Cannon
On 8/28/07, Sean Reifschneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've taken the week off and I'm trying to do something useful for Python in > some of my time. I've basically been looking through the entries sorted by > priority and least recent activity. > > Some items I've been able to do something w

[Python-Dev] Triage of old tracker bugs: Any use?

2007-08-28 Thread Sean Reifschneider
I've taken the week off and I'm trying to do something useful for Python in some of my time. I've basically been looking through the entries sorted by priority and least recent activity. Some items I've been able to do something with (like the "immediate" priority %formatting bug #1467929, and th

[Python-Dev] Merging a branch, and new docs

2007-08-28 Thread Facundo Batista
Hello everybody. Mark Dickinson helped a lot (*a lot*) with the decimal branch, and we're near to pass the brand new test cases from Cowlishaw. My original idea is to update all the documentation before merging the branch into the trunk, but now that they changed so much, I don't know what to do:

[Python-Dev] test_calendar broken on trunk

2007-08-28 Thread skip
On the community trunk buildbots this checkin: 1. Changed by: walter.doerwald Changed at: Tue 28 Aug 2007 16:38:27 Branch: trunk Revision: 57620 Changed files: * trunk/Doc/library/calendar.rst * trunk/Lib/calendar.py Comments: Fix

Re: [Python-Dev] Other SSL issues in the tracker have been marked

2007-08-28 Thread Bill Janssen
Looking at the buildbots today, Windows is still unhappy. It seems to have gotten further, though. The problematic test is this one: File "C:\buildbot_py25\trunk.mcintyre-windows\build\lib\test\test_ssl.py", line 77, in testSSLconnect s.connect(("pop.gmail.com", 995)) File "C:\buildbo

Re: [Python-Dev] Other SSL issues in the tracker have been marked

2007-08-28 Thread Bill Janssen
> On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Bill Janssen wrote: > > > This must be the call to os.system in test_ssl.py:create_cert_files(). > > It's very UNIX-y. Can any bi-platform folks suggest a good > > alternative to > > > > os.system( > > "openssl req -batch -new -x509 -days 10 -nodes -config %s "

Re: [Python-Dev] tarfile and directory traversal vulnerability

2007-08-28 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> GNU tar is not supposed to place files outside its working directory, > unless explicitly specified otherwise. So this is considered a security > vulnerability. So that's a vulnerability in GNU tar, sure - it does something that it is not supposed to do. But why is there also a vulnerability in

Re: [Python-Dev] Other SSL issues in the tracker have been marked

2007-08-28 Thread Damien Miller
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Bill Janssen wrote: > This must be the call to os.system in test_ssl.py:create_cert_files(). > It's very UNIX-y. Can any bi-platform folks suggest a good > alternative to > > os.system( > "openssl req -batch -new -x509 -days 10 -nodes -config %s " > "-key