-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 26, 2008, at 12:04 AM, Neal Norwitz wrote: > > It's been pretty bad the last month or so. Although it's getting > better now. I would recommend these are the golden bots based on what > have traditionally been fairly stable help expose errors: > > sparc solaris10 > amd64 gentoo (this is really an ubuntu 6.10 box) > x86 gentoo (*) > g4 os x (this one has svn problems from time to time which is odd > given that it is the only box colocated with the svn server) > some win xp box (#4 wfm, i think that has been the most stable > recently) > ia64 ubuntu > ppc debian (this may be ubuntu also) > ppc64 debian (ditto)
Cool, thanks for this list. > The biggest challenge will be having svn work on all the machines. > The tests are getting more stable. I worked on many of them. There > are still issues from time to time, but at this point I think more are > caused by bad checkins. Sometimes these machines go away, if they are > unavailable at time of release, so be it. > > If we can get more people watching the buildbots and ping those > responsible for a failure, we can keep the red to a minimum. If we > can fix the ~5 flaky tests, we will be in good shape. If we can fix > the svn problems, we'll be in great shape. Nearly all of the flaky > tests are due to networking problems. Sometimes transient conditions > like the host is unavailable, others due to races. > > (*) x86 gentoo should not be used for 3.0. There is a problem with > signal 32 that causes it to rarely work. I don't know the cause or > how to fix this. All of the 3.0 buildbots are currently red. Both test_cProfile and test_profile fail consistently for me on x86 Ubuntu Gutsy and Intel OS X 10.5.2. It looks like the buildbots are failing here too -- does anybody have time to fix these two tests? - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBR8QaeXEjvBPtnXfVAQITQQQAlcjymy7ZV9y6cq4bFNM9/55CBj35ahOz M9S31WkxJgisk6q3ebS1NzQIAp7V1FeS14TZD0TYwYEAgDxQHQ/xJeB9RB63feNX DaJUa6zTPFY7lBvaOWJ8SMp5yvlwnbzykbh52tsKiikCUqFCjU6IC/p7ieebqadF UJxbVZ9nTdM= =Py4H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
