On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 8:54 PM Michael Felt <aixto...@felt.demon.nl> wrote: > > > > On 10/2/2018 4:45 PM, Erik Bray wrote: > > Michael, if there are any PRs you want to point me to that I might be > > able to help review please do. > A little trick I learned: > https://github.com/python/cpython/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+author%3Aaixtools+sort%3Aupdated-desc > lists them all.
Cool, I'll have a look. > What "flipped my switch" yesterday was discovering a PR that I was > gifted (by an ex? core-dev) and put in the system back in January is now > broken by a patch merged about two weeks ago. Worse, pieces of > test_ctypes(bitfields) that previously worked when using __xlc__ seem to > be broken. Which highlighted the "time pressure" of getting tests to > pass so that regressions can be seen. Yes, that can certainly happen. I have many PRs floating around on different projects that, you know, get stalled for months and months and inevitably break. It's extremely frustrating, but we've all been there :) > If you let me know what info you would need (I gave lots of debug info > two years ago to get that initial fix). > > And, I guess the other "larger" change re: test_distutils. Also, some > issues specific to xlc being different from gcc. > > Those two do not show on the gccfarm buildbot. > > Many thanks for the offer! I'll try to not take more than the hand offered! > > I don't know anything about AIX either > > and am not a core dev so I can't have a final say. But I've been > > hacking on CPython for a long time anyways, and might be able to help > > at least with some initial review. I also about to ask if you have a buildbot for AIX, and I see now you have several. So step in the right direction! _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
