Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-05 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/5/2010 2:19 AM, Georg Brandl wrote: > Am 05.08.2010 01:26, schrieb Barry Warsaw: >> On Aug 04, 2010, at 06:39 PM, Steve Holden wrote: >> >>> I'll see if I can get God to extend it for you. >> >> No need to involve the supernatural Steve! Just approve that PSF grant I >> submitted so I can fin

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-05 Thread Jon Ribbens
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 07:26:06PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Aug 04, 2010, at 06:39 PM, Steve Holden wrote: > >I'll see if I can get God to extend it for you. > > No need to involve the supernatural Steve! Just approve that PSF grant I > submitted so I can finish my (Python powered of cours

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 05.08.2010 01:26, schrieb Barry Warsaw: > On Aug 04, 2010, at 06:39 PM, Steve Holden wrote: > >>I'll see if I can get God to extend it for you. > > No need to involve the supernatural Steve! Just approve that PSF grant I > submitted so I can finish my (Python powered of course!) clone army.

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
>> If you mean to imply that a release manager should care for the stability >> of "their" branch also in between of releases -- I'd love to do that, >> but I'd need a 36-hour day then. >> > I'll see if I can get God to extend it for you. I honestly do understand > that everyone else works under th

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Steve Holden writes: > But I see rules being established ("there's a language moratorium: no > changes!", "no release should be made unless the buildbots are *all* > green") and then ignored apparently on a whim. This doesn't give people > any confidence that the rules actually mean much, and

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 04, 2010, at 06:39 PM, Steve Holden wrote: >I'll see if I can get God to extend it for you. No need to involve the supernatural Steve! Just approve that PSF grant I submitted so I can finish my (Python powered of course!) clone army. >I honestly do understand that everyone else works und

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/4/2010 6:11 PM, Georg Brandl wrote: > Am 04.08.2010 19:56, schrieb Steve Holden: > >> This whole discussion seems to make it clear that the release manager >> procedures are still ill-defined in certain areas. > > If you mean to imply that a release manager should care for the stability > of

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 04.08.2010 19:56, schrieb Steve Holden: > This whole discussion seems to make it clear that the release manager > procedures are still ill-defined in certain areas. If you mean to imply that a release manager should care for the stability of "their" branch also in between of releases -- I'd lo

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 04.08.2010 20:25, schrieb Barry Warsaw: > On Aug 04, 2010, at 01:56 PM, Steve Holden wrote: > >>But I see rules being established ("there's a language moratorium: no >>changes!", "no release should be made unless the buildbots are *all* >>green") and then ignored apparently on a whim. This does

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:53:22 +0200 Georg Brandl wrote: > > > > The hard part is to know *when* to look. As you might have noticed, the > > Python test suite does not run in ten seconds, especially on some of the > > buildbots -- it can take 1-2 there to complete. > > That should be "1-2 hours",

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 04.08.2010 17:53, schrieb Georg Brandl: > Am 04.08.2010 17:15, schrieb exar...@twistedmatrix.com: >> On 02:51 pm, ba...@python.org wrote: >>>On Aug 04, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: I think the issue is that many core developers don't have the reflex to check buildbot state af

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/4/2010 2:57 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> This whole discussion seems to make it clear that the release manager >> procedures are still ill-defined in certain areas. > > No. It rather makes clear that people who never had the role of release > manager > >> Otherwise a release >> manager co

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Neil Schemenauer
Georg Brandl wrote: > The hard part is to know *when* to look. As you might have noticed, the > Python test suite does not run in ten seconds, especially on some of the > buildbots -- it can take 1-2 there to complete. Based on this and other issues, I don't think it's practical to expect that p

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> This whole discussion seems to make it clear that the release manager > procedures are still ill-defined in certain areas. No. It rather makes clear that people who never had the role of release manager > Otherwise a release > manager could proceed by reading a web page an even, heaven help us,

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 04, 2010, at 01:56 PM, Steve Holden wrote: >But I see rules being established ("there's a language moratorium: no >changes!", "no release should be made unless the buildbots are *all* >green") and then ignored apparently on a whim. This doesn't give people >any confidence that the rules act

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:56:27 -0400 Steve Holden wrote: > > This whole discussion seems to make it clear that the release manager > procedures are still ill-defined in certain areas. Otherwise a release > manager could proceed by reading a web page an even, heaven help us, > following specific lin

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Łukasz Langa
Wiadomość napisana przez Steve Holden w dniu 2010-08-04, o godz. 19:56: > But I see rules being established ("there's a language moratorium: no > changes!", "no release should be made unless the buildbots are *all* > green") and then ignored apparently on a whim. This doesn't give people > any co

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/4/2010 12:42 PM, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: > On 03:31 pm, ba...@python.org wrote: >> On Aug 04, 2010, at 03:15 PM, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: >>> On 02:51 pm, ba...@python.org wrote: On Aug 04, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > I think the issue is that many core

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 04, 2010, at 06:58 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:45:37 - >exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: >> >> I don't think it's that hard to take a look at the end of the day >> (or before starting anything else the next morning). All it really >> takes is a choice on the part

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 04.08.2010 18:21, schrieb David Stanek: > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Georg Brandl wrote: >> >> The hard part is to know *when* to look. As you might have noticed, the >> Python test suite does not run in ten seconds, especially on some of the >> buildbots -- it can take 1-2 there to comp

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 04.08.2010 18:45, schrieb exar...@twistedmatrix.com: >>>How hard is it to look at a web page? >> >>The hard part is to know *when* to look. As you might have noticed, >>the >>Python test suite does not run in ten seconds, especially on some of >>the >>buildbots -- it can take 1-2 there to com

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:45:37 - exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: > > I don't think it's that hard to take a look at the end of the day (or > before starting anything else the next morning). All it really takes is > a choice on the part of each developer to care whether or not their > change

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread exarkun
On 03:53 pm, g.bra...@gmx.net wrote: Am 04.08.2010 17:15, schrieb exar...@twistedmatrix.com: On 02:51 pm, ba...@python.org wrote: On Aug 04, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: I think the issue is that many core developers don't have the reflex to check buildbot state after they commit s

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread exarkun
On 03:31 pm, ba...@python.org wrote: On Aug 04, 2010, at 03:15 PM, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: On 02:51 pm, ba...@python.org wrote: On Aug 04, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: I think the issue is that many core developers don't have the reflex to check buildbot state after they c

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread David Stanek
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Georg Brandl wrote: > > The hard part is to know *when* to look.  As you might have noticed, the > Python test suite does not run in ten seconds, especially on some of the > buildbots -- it can take 1-2 there to complete.  So if you look too soon, > you won't see a

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 04.08.2010 17:15, schrieb exar...@twistedmatrix.com: > On 02:51 pm, ba...@python.org wrote: >>On Aug 04, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >>>I think the issue is that many core developers don't have the reflex >>>to check buildbot state after they commit some changes (or at least >>>on a

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread exarkun
On 03:17 pm, fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk wrote: On 04/08/2010 16:15, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: On 02:51 pm, ba...@python.org wrote: On Aug 04, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: I think the issue is that many core developers don't have the reflex to check buildbot state after they c

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 04, 2010, at 03:15 PM, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: >On 02:51 pm, ba...@python.org wrote: >>On Aug 04, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >>>I think the issue is that many core developers don't have the reflex >>>to check buildbot state after they commit some changes (or at least

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Michael Foord
On 04/08/2010 16:15, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: On 02:51 pm, ba...@python.org wrote: On Aug 04, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: I think the issue is that many core developers don't have the reflex to check buildbot state after they commit some changes (or at least on a regular, s

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread exarkun
On 02:51 pm, ba...@python.org wrote: On Aug 04, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: I think the issue is that many core developers don't have the reflex to check buildbot state after they commit some changes (or at least on a regular, say weekly, basis), and so gradually the buildbots have

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 04, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >I think the issue is that many core developers don't have the reflex >to check buildbot state after they commit some changes (or at least >on a regular, say weekly, basis), and so gradually the buildbots have >a tendency to turn from green to re

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/4/2010 6:08 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:16, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >>> I would advocate a system were people are encouraged to take >>> responsibility of the problems they introduce when committing changes. >>>

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:16, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> I would advocate a system were people are encouraged to take >> responsibility of the problems they introduce when committing changes. >> Of course, there are sometimes situations where

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:16, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > I would advocate a system were people are encouraged to take > responsibility of the problems they introduce when committing changes. > Of course, there are sometimes situations where it's not possible > (triggering platform-specific oddities,