On 7/15/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Terry Reedy wrote: > > That is the goal, but when I watched the buildbot results last spring, the > > degree of stability (greenness) appeared to vary. Is it possible to tag > > particular versions as a 'green' version, or the 'most recent green > > version' worth playing with? > > Don't get confused by these colors. The tree compiled nearly all of the > time, even if some tests were failing for an extended period of time on > some platforms.
Right. It's very rare that the interpreter or stdlib is broken. There are 19 buildbots currently. 7 are not green. 5 of those are offline, most with known (to me and the person that donated the machines) hardware issues ranging from lack of air conditioning, to a bad router, to no power. 1 is cygwin which is running an old version. I just (an hour or so ago) got an account on a cygwin box to help diagnose the status and figure out if anything within Python or the tests are broken. That leaves 1 unexplained failure on a Windows bot. This started happening recently after being down for a while. I haven't had time to investigate. The reason why it was not very green in spring was because that's when we were getting it set up! The master looks like it was installed at the end of 2005/beginning of 2006. It took several months to get rid of many testing issues. Tests that couldn't be run in a particular order, tests that couldn't be run simultaneously (socket), bad compilation of sqlite/bsddb modules (not in python), misconfigured systems, tests verifying something that was system dependent, signed addresses, etc. Of all the problems there were, I only remember a single problem in Python. (There were probably more, I just remember one.) That was in test code (xxmodule or something like that. There were a bunch of problems with ctypes and/or sqlite when they got integrated having to deal with these new platforms. That may be what you are recalling. Right before alpha 2 was a particularly bad time. What we mean by stable is that at any time/any stage of development, if a change goes in that breaks the tests, it is likely to be fixed or reverted within hours. The amount of time the build or tests are broken on the majority of platforms is quite small. It took a while to get to this point due to a bunch of flaky tests, but those have mostly been fixed. The only known problems are mentioned on the wiki. When the buildbots fail, we get mail to python-checkins. Unfortunately, that's mostly spam at this point. I hope to fix that at some point. I also hope to change the main page to give more info in less space. n _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
