On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 5:04 PM Victor Stinner <vstin...@python.org> wrote:

> Hi Brett,
>
> You can put my name as Contact of all Fedora and RHEL platforms.
>
> Note: Fedora "Rawhide" is the rolling release and it's common that
> these buildbots are broken by kernel, compiler or glibc updates,
> rather than actual Python regressions. Time to time, it detects real
> Python regressions. Tier 2 should only target Fedora *Stable* (which
> is the case ;-)).
>
> > glibc XXX [fedora-stable]
>
> Mentioning that Fedora uses glibc is nice, but I don't think that it's
> worth it to mention the glibc version. Fedora is released every 6
> months and the glibc version is updated at each Fedora release.
>


Christian had suggested/asked for that. So are people okay dropping the
glibc version and instead documenting that it's testing glibc instead of
e.g. musl?

-Brett


>
> > x86_64-unknown-freebsd XXX
> https://buildbot.python.org/all/#/builders/172 XXX
>
> You can put my name as Contact for the FreeBSD buildbot.
>
> I don't *actively* support FreeBSD, but last years, I did "best
> effort" support: add some FreeBSD features sometimes, adapt Python for
> new FreeBSD changes, fix regressions specific to FreeBSD, investigate
> unstable tests which only fail on FreeBSD, etc.
>
> You can mention that FreeBSD now uses the "clang" C compiler, since
> most Linux distributions (ex: RHEL) use GCC. It's a significant
> difference.
>

Do we want to mention compilers in this? And is it just at the extent of
which compiler but w/o a version number?
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