On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 at 06:14 Stefan Krah <ste...@bytereef.org> wrote:
> Victor Stinner <victor.stinner <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Maybe it's time to move more 3.x buildbots to the "stable" category? > > http://buildbot.python.org/all/waterfall?category=3.x.stable > > +1 I think anything that is actually stable should be in that category. > > > > By the way, I don't understand why "AMD64 OpenIndiana 3.x" is > > considered as stable since it's failing with multiple issues since > > many months and nobody is working on these failures. I suggest to move > > this buildbot back to the unstable category. > > +1 The bot was very stable and fast for some time but has been unstable > for at least a year. > > > > > - PPC64 AIX 3.x: failing tests: test_httplib, test_httpservers, > > test_socket, test_distutils, test_asyncio, (...); random timeout > > failure in test_eintr, etc. I don't have access to AIX and I'm not > > interested to acquire an AIX license, nor to install it. I'm not sure > > that it's useful to have an AIX buildbot and no core developer have > > access to AIX, and nobody is working on AIX failures. Maybe HP wants > > to help us to support AIX? (Provide manpower, access to AIX servers, > > or something like that.) > > Well, I think in this case it's the gcc AIX maintainer running it, so... > > > I think we should have a policy to stop reporting issues on unstable > bots unless someone has a concrete fix OR the bot maintainers are > known to fix issues fast (but that does not seem to be the case). > Official policy per https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/#supporting-platforms states that there must be a core developer to maintain the compatibility, so if there's no one helping to keep a particular buildbot green then I agree it should be marked as unstable and thus not supported.
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