Hi, On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 12:35:51PM +0100, Erik Bray wrote: > It seems to me those should be among the most important, if not *the* > most important tickets to farm out to patchbots across multiple > platforms. If it made sense to I would set my Windows patchbot to > prioritize these among all others. > > New versions of packages are far more likely to break across > platform-related issues than, say, updates to non-platform specific > Python and Cython code. > > What is the reason for this, and is there anything I can do to improve > this situation?
IIRC, this was for security reasons. I am +1 to allow those tickets to be patchbot tested, as an option (not by default). I personally run my patchbot within a VM (actually i have to since i have to emulate 32-bit architecture for Sage Debian Live), so i will volonteer to test such tickets. I have an automatic way to bootstrap such patchbot VM (more-or-less every supported versions of Debian and Ubuntu, both 32 and 64 bits, if there is a strong need, i could work on supporting more distros and architectures), so i am thinking on providing ready-to-run patchbots for users that do not want to take risks for their computers, nor loose time in setting such things up. Note however that it is not clear what to do with such tickets: by default a patchbot runs the tests only with respect to the packages installed by its owner. In this case, if the owner did not install the corresponding package (which will always be the case if the ticket is about a new package), the patchbot will report a possibly wrong false positive. But, if we want to add an option to let the patchbot install a new package proposed by some ticket, after testing that ticket, the patchbot will be in a different state than before to test other tickets, in this situation, the patchbot will report possibly wrong false negative. So, at the end, we have an issue with our packaging system: there is no systematic way to uninstall a package. Ciao, Thierry > Thanks, > Erik > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
