If you find a macOS CI platform with more capacity, please let me know :-) Travis has been totally underwater of late, but I don't know of any alternatives; probably because operating a fleet of macOS builders is a giant pain. You need Apple hardware, and it turns out you can either purchase a trashcan or a mac mini, and neither of those is really designed for a server farm.
If anyone here can magically whisper in Tim Cook's ear, can you ask him to license macOS to AWS or Google Cloud or something? :-(, Alex On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 at 15:04 Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > >> On Sep 19, 2017, at 15:32, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > The macOS job has been removed from Travis CI at the beginnig of the >> > CPython sprint two weeks ago. Since the macOS build was removed, I'm >> > less annoyed by Travis CI: it seems more stable. >> > >> > Are you ok to not add again the macOS job to Travis CI? >> > >> > Again, my rationale is that we already have 3 macOS buildbots and I'm >> > looking closely at all buildbot failures. I try to keep track of *all* >> > failures, even random failure. A recent macOS example: >> > https://bugs.python.org/issue31510 >> > >> > Sadly, remaining random failures are the most rare and most difficult >> > to reproduce. (I fixed a lot of them last months.) >> >> If the macOS tests aren’t stable, then yes, removing them is better than >> frustrating developers who can’t reproduce CI failures, even on the CI >> machines let alone their own development boxes. >> >> I forget though, was it a problem with macOS CI stability or general >> throughput? I thought they just couldn’t keep up with the workload, in >> which case it seems like we should be able to throw more resources at it, >> right? >> > > If it is a Travis issue then there are no more resources to throw at it > from a Travis perspective: what they are already providing us is rather > large and paying out of pocket is rather costly. The only other option is > to find another CI provider who has macOS support and use them just for > that platform. > > _______________________________________________ > python-committers mailing list > python-committers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers > Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > > -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (summarizing Voltaire) "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero GPG Key fingerprint: D1B3 ADC0 E023 8CA6
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