My opinion is that we should keep Windows support. Beyond the fact that Azure is a popular cloud platform, testing on Windows keeps us honest for our Python work, making sure that we're writing platform-neutral code.
The AppVeyor tests are broken for now, but I'm confident we will eventually fix them. On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Thomas Nadeau <tnadeaua...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Aria-Tosca Community: > > I wanted to take a formal poll of the community in terms of > our official support for the Windows platform. While the project should > continue running as the project is a python package, this is more around > the logistics/efforts/resources we as a project have to invest in > maintaining support for that platform; specifically, our CI and testing > as well as documentation around installation, etc... > > What prompted me to think about this is that over the past week or > so, we > have encountered a number of strange CI failures that have required > considerable time > spent on trying to get things working. As some of you might have gathered > from > slack/email, Tal spent a ton of time trying to fixing the latest issues and > was still not able to completely resolve them which is why the current > plan is that committers have to do manual tests, which have their own > associated costs. As a team we have limited resources to work on the > project, > so I wanted to make sure we are focusing them all on moving towards release > 1.0. > > As a result earlier this week I asked people in/around the project > informally > and found no one using or developing on that platform, so I wanted to > ask here formally if anyone is interested in our continued support > of the platform or not. If you are, please indicate in as much detail > as you can as to why/how. I would also like to here if you are not > explicitly, > but if I don’t, I will assume that people aren’t. > > Also, if you do not feel like you can post that to the public > list, please contact me offline and I will keep your responses anonymous. > I would like to gather this input over the course of the next week so that > we can make a decision on this by about Friday, November > > > Cheers, > > —Tom > >
