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

2014-05-15 Thread R. David Murray
On Thu, 15 May 2014 19:14:55 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 2014 09:40:33 -0500 > Skip Montanaro wrote: > > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: > > > I view stable buildbots as staying up and testing critical platforms. > > > > Would "supported" and "unsupported"

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

2014-05-15 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Thu, 15 May 2014 09:40:33 -0500 Skip Montanaro wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: > > I view stable buildbots as staying up and testing critical platforms. > > Would "supported" and "unsupported" (or "critical" and "optional"?) > make more sense? "Unstable" suggests

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

2014-05-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: > I view stable buildbots as staying up and testing critical platforms. Would "supported" and "unsupported" (or "critical" and "optional"?) make more sense? "Unstable" suggests "broken" to me, not "we don't really care about these." S

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

2014-05-15 Thread Brett Cannon
On Thu May 15 2014 at 10:24:45 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Antoine Pitrou > wrote: > > We already have such buildbots, they are in the "unstable" category. > > You can browse through existing buildbots here: > > https://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/ > > I can't se

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

2014-05-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > We already have such buildbots, they are in the "unstable" category. > You can browse through existing buildbots here: > https://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/ I can't see how to distinguish "stable" from "unstable" (or to view just the "unst

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

2014-05-15 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Thu, 15 May 2014 08:20:03 -0500 Skip Montanaro wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:05 PM, Guido van Rossum 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

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

2014-05-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:05 PM, Guido van Rossum 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 mai

Re: [Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2014-05-15 Thread Ezio Melotti
Hi, On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 1:37 PM, francis wrote: > On 02/07/2014 06:07 PM, Python tracker wrote: >> >> Open issues with patches: 2045 > > > Has somebody done a graphic of that data againsttime? > You can find some charts here (it's still a work in progress though): http://bugs.python.org/is