[python-committers] Re: Restarting individual CI runs

2021-06-22 Thread Alex Gaynor
r this. > > A timeout on a job still marks it as failed, I presume, so we still have to > restart all jobs... :-( > > On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 12:40 PM Alex Gaynor wrote: >> >> Github actions doesn't have the ability to restart individual jobs, >> sadly (I&#x

[python-committers] Re: Restarting individual CI runs

2021-06-22 Thread Alex Gaynor
Github actions doesn't have the ability to restart individual jobs, sadly (I've asked for this when they've done research sessions). FWIW, I'd recommend adding a timeout to jobs (it can be set in the YML file), that way hung jobs don't hang for hours and hours. Alex On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 3:16

[python-committers] Re: Notification of a three-month ban from Python core development

2020-07-22 Thread Alex Gaynor
It was sent to all of python-committers as a heads up that _someone_ was banned. I didn't follow the thread in question, so this is all a little opaque to me, I have no idea who we're talking about or what their conduct is. I assume that's intentional. Alex On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 3:40 PM Ivan

Re: [python-committers] Azure build operations

2019-05-21 Thread Alex Gaynor
There's a link that does that on _github_. (On mobile, sorry for terseness). Alex On Tue, May 21, 2019, 2:10 PM Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Hello, > > How can I restart a failed build on Azure? > > https://dev.azure.com/Python/cpython/_build/results?buildId=43161&view=logs&j=18d1a34d-6940-5fc1-f5

Re: [python-committers] miss-islington backport pipeline is stalled?

2019-05-08 Thread Alex Gaynor
Would it make sense to work with the PSF infra staff so that miss-isslington is hooked up to the PSF Sentry account so folks can get email notifications and similar on unhandled exceptions? Alex On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 1:02 PM Mariatta wrote: > There was an error from Redis. I think this is the

Re: [python-committers] Merge with spurious CI failures?

2019-05-08 Thread Alex Gaynor
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/13192 Thanks gps! Alex On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 11:58 AM Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Ok, apparently the SSL cert on self-signed.pythontest.net was changed > but it wasn't updated in our source tree, hence the failure. > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > Le 08/05/2

Re: [python-committers] Merge with spurious CI failures?

2019-05-08 Thread Alex Gaynor
Tests for that PR would presumably be green :-) Alex On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 11:51 AM Eric V. Smith wrote: > Surely there must be some way around it. After all, how would you merge a > PR to fix this test? > > -- > Eric V. Smith > True Blade Systems, Inc > (301) 859-4544 > > On May 8, 2019, at 1

Re: [python-committers] Merge with spurious CI failures?

2019-05-08 Thread Alex Gaynor
tic. Apparently the test which connects to > "self-signed.pythontest.net" always fails now with a "self-signed > certificate" error... > > Le 08/05/2019 à 17:37, Alex Gaynor a écrit : > > Are these intermittent failures, or is there bustage on master right

Re: [python-committers] Merge with spurious CI failures?

2019-05-08 Thread Alex Gaynor
Are these intermittent failures, or is there bustage on master right now? My usual habit on other projects (I'm not very active on CPython these days) is to restart the build on travis so that is a nice green checkmark. Alex On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 11:32 AM Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Hello, > >

Re: [python-committers] Moderation of the Python community

2018-10-17 Thread Alex Gaynor
I think you're dramatically overestimating a) the possibility that someone would attempt to use the CoC process frivolously, b) the possibility that the CoC WG would act on such a complaint without good cause. FWIW I was involved in removing a core developer from another community for CoC violatio

Re: [python-committers] Fw: CoC violation (was: Retire or reword the "Beautiful is better than ugly" Zen clause)

2018-09-20 Thread Alex Gaynor
Is there a copy of the original email? (I'm not a regular python-ideas reader) Based on Brett's description though, the content sounds very far over the line, and I wouldn't want to interfere with the WG's decision. Alex On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 4:25 PM Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm cho

Re: [python-committers] And Now for Something Completely Different

2018-07-25 Thread Alex Gaynor
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 7:24 PM Donald Stufft wrote: > > > On Jul 25, 2018, at 2:01 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > > Right, and your proposal means I now have to judge proposed core > developers on which side of popular opinion they will come down on in hopes > that they vote in ways I agree with and

Re: [python-committers] I created the "needs backport to 3.7" label on GitHub

2018-01-31 Thread Alex Gaynor
Is there documentation somewhere on "how to create a release branch" that we should add "creating a label" step to? Alex On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 6:40 PM, Mariatta Wijaya wrote: > I noticed that there is a 3.7 branch now. > So you can use this label if you want miss-islington to backport a PR to

Re: [python-committers] Security: please enable 2-factor authentication on GitHub and your email

2018-01-07 Thread Alex Gaynor
nchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1741768 > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > Le 06/01/2018 à 20:42, Barry Warsaw a écrit : > > On Jan 6, 2018, at 14:00, Alex Gaynor wrote: > >> > >> Hey Antoine, > >> > >> Assuming you're on Firefo

Re: [python-committers] Security: please enable 2-factor authentication on GitHub and your email

2018-01-06 Thread Alex Gaynor
Hey Antoine, Assuming you're on Firefox57, it requires a pref -- once the WebAuthn spec is finalized we'll drop the pref -- https://mobile.twitter.com/jamespugjones/status/91231495223226 Alex On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 1:59 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Hi, > > So, for the record (even though

Re: [python-committers] How to force Travis to re-run?

2018-01-06 Thread Alex Gaynor
If you look at the travis-ui, do you see little "restart" arrows (example attached)? Those are what do it -- I went ahead and restarted the failed job on this one. Alex On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 11:43 AM, Eric V. Smith wrote: > I'm trying to merge this: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/5113

Re: [python-committers] Security: please enable 2-factor authentication on GitHub and your email

2017-12-12 Thread Alex Gaynor
They require a preference to be enabled, but yeah, Security Keys in Firefox Quantum 🎉 https://mobile.twitter.com/jamespugjones/status/91231495223226 Alex On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > If some people are inclined to push for 2FA, I think it would be more > produ

Re: [python-committers] Security: please enable 2-factor authentication on GitHub and your email

2017-12-11 Thread Alex Gaynor
The reason for the username-then-a-new-page-for-password flow in many cases is that the sites have multiple flows depending on your username! The GMail login page for example can send you to either the password page since you're a consumer account, the password page because you're a GSuite account

Re: [python-committers] Security: please enable 2-factor authentication on GitHub and your email

2017-12-11 Thread Alex Gaynor
It's possible to generate a key on a regular computer and transfer it to a YubiKey if you prefer. (It's not like software key generation has been flawless either; [OpenSSL/Debian fiasco]. Oh well, such is life). Even if you're not going to put your SSH keys on a YubiKey, I _strongly_ encourage fol

Re: [python-committers] Adding Ivan Levkivskyi as a core committer

2017-12-06 Thread Alex Gaynor
Someone needs to invite him to this list :-) On Dec 6, 2017 11:44 AM, "Guido van Rossum" wrote: > I think I figured it out -- I invited him to the python org on GitHub. > Anything else? > > On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 8:37 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> OK, let's make it so. It's been a long time

Re: [python-committers] Enabling depreciation warnings feature code cutoff

2017-11-06 Thread Alex Gaynor
I also feel this decision was a mistake. If there's a consensus to revert, I'm happy to draft a PEP. Alex On Nov 6, 2017 1:58 PM, "Neil Schemenauer" wrote: > On 2017-11-06, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > Gah, seven years on from Python 2.7's release, I still get caught by > > that. I'm tempted to prop

Re: [python-committers] Merging a PR with failed CI

2017-10-22 Thread Alex Gaynor
On other projects I work on, my usual practice is to restart the Travis job and wait for it to pass. Alex On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Hello, > > What is the recommended way of merging a PR when Travis-CI failed for > unrelated reasons? (apparently an external NNTP

Re: [python-committers] OK to back-fill "awaiting" labels on open issues?

2017-10-06 Thread Alex Gaynor
Can we please use a phrase for re-triggering a review that makes more sense like "I've updated the patch, please re-review", rather than magic inside baseball language? Alex On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 5:29 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > I noticed today that out of about 19 pages of issues, only the firs

Re: [python-committers] Travis CI: macOS is now blocking -- remove macOS from Travis CI?

2017-09-19 Thread Alex Gaynor
If you find a macOS CI platform with more capacity, please let me know :-) Travis has been totally underwater of late, but I don't know of any alternatives; probably because operating a fleet of macOS builders is a giant pain. You need Apple hardware, and it turns out you can either purchase a tra

Re: [python-committers] Cherry picker bot deployed in CPython repo

2017-09-05 Thread Alex Gaynor
This is a great UX win for our development process. Thanks for making this happen! Alex On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 9:10 PM, Mariatta Wijaya wrote: > Hi, > > The cherry picker bot has just been deployed to CPython repo, codenamed > miss-islington. > > miss-islington made the very first backport PR f

Re: [python-committers] mention-bot is dead, long live the (misnamed) CODEOWNERS file!

2017-08-01 Thread Alex Gaynor
The other big advantage to using teams is that they'll automatically apply to all branches. Alex On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Aug 1, 2017, at 17:09, Christian Heimes wrote: > > > Marietta, Brett, thanks for your work! > > Indeed! > > > I suggested teams to make the

Re: [python-committers] Appveyor tests failing for CPython?

2017-05-29 Thread Alex Gaynor
Great, thanks for digging in! Alex On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Zachary Ware wrote: > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 9:19 AM, Zachary Ware > wrote: > > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Alex Gaynor > wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> It looks like appveyor

[python-committers] Appveyor tests failing for CPython?

2017-05-29 Thread Alex Gaynor
Hi all, It looks like appveyor tests are currently failing on all builds (something about UNC paths + imports). Was appveyor enabled recently, or did the test regress? Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (summarizi

Re: [python-committers] Proposing Carol Willing to become a core developer

2017-05-23 Thread Alex Gaynor
Carol's also served on the PSF board of directors for a number of years. +1 Alex On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > While at the PyCon US sprints the idea came up of offering Carol Willing > developer privileges. Everyone at the table -- about 6 of us -- liked the > idea and

Re: [python-committers] No Travis-CI on OS X?

2017-05-02 Thread Alex Gaynor
Travis's macOS builds aren't as slow as they used to be, between them adding capacity and our queue increase. Alex On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > > Is there a way to get faster OS X builds with our connections at Travis-CI? > I agree that OS X builds are usually very

Re: [python-committers] I have blocked Wes Turner from the Python org on GitHub

2017-04-01 Thread Alex Gaynor
I'll be another voice saying that the CoC isn't the right mechanism -- the CoC is for harassment and abuse (at least, most community's CoCs are, the Python one is pretty vague). That said, I have no problem with the action taken, banning people who are extremely unproductive is a necessary step fo

Re: [python-committers] 4 weeks with the new workflow: what needs changing?

2017-03-14 Thread Alex Gaynor
If most patches (by LOC) don't require domain knowledge to commit, I guess they probably don't need domain knowledge to review. Alex On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 at 10:04 Donald Stufft wrote: > >> >> On Mar 13, 2017, at 11:54 AM, Barry Warsaw

Re: [python-committers] 4 weeks with the new workflow: what needs changing?

2017-03-13 Thread Alex Gaynor
That suggests an interesting question: Why is the Touched It Last so different from the domain expert :-) Alex On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Mar 13, 2017, at 01:12 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: > > >Since there doesn't seem to be strong support I'm leaning towards > switc

Re: [python-committers] Disable Codecov on GitHub pull requests?

2017-02-13 Thread Alex Gaynor
I'm obviously not very active in CPython development these days, but actively tracking the impact of each PR on coverage has been extremely useful in every other project I've worked on. It's the best way to automatically ensure PRs are not regressing coverage too much, and doesn't require much man

Re: [python-committers] We will be moving to GitHub (hopefully) in 2016

2016-01-04 Thread Alex Gaynor
Probably the easiest thing is to point the linkifier at our own webservice that just does: if hash not in cache: try: requests.head("github.com/hash") except requests.error: try: request.head("hg.python.org/hash") except request.error: re

Re: [python-committers] We will be moving to GitHub (hopefully) in 2016

2016-01-04 Thread Alex Gaynor
My git clone is 350MB (after a make clean), a fresh hg clone is 650MB. Alex On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Georg Brandl wrote: > On 01/01/2016 08:24 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > > If you want to read the reasons I chose GitHub over GitLab, > > see > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/core-workflow

Re: [python-committers] We will be moving to GitHub (hopefully) in 2016

2016-01-04 Thread Alex Gaynor
+1 Alex On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > > > On Jan 4, 2016, at 3:51 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > > > I once looked at it and decided it wasn't something I wanted to touch ;) > so > > paying Eric to do it might not be a bad idea. > > > I’d prefer it if we didn’t financiall

Re: [python-committers] Github accounts (was: formalising retirement as a Python committer)

2016-01-02 Thread Alex Gaynor
For Django this has literally never come up. Alex On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > Another idea I had is could someone reach out to another project like > Django or Go that switched to GitHub and see how they handled this > situation for contributors? I don't feel I'm in a

Re: [python-committers] We will be moving to GitHub (hopefully) in 2016

2016-01-01 Thread Alex Gaynor
Brett (and everyone else), Thanks so much for all the time you put into working through this decision! Alex On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > If you want to read the reasons I chose GitHub over GitLab, see > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/core-workflow/2016-January/00034

Re: [python-committers] Contact info for possible workflow tool security issue

2014-06-19 Thread Alex Gaynor
security@ seems like the right address, since at a minimum we have all the people who'll know where to route the issue to. Alex On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014, at 18:23, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > > > > > Le 19/06/2014 21:13, Nick Coghlan a écri

[python-committers] Brian Kearns for commit

2014-03-10 Thread Alex Gaynor
Hi all, I'd like to propose Brian Kearns for commit. He's been a committer on PyPy for about a year and a half now, and in particular he's done a bunch of "Python version" works: things like upgrading us from the 2.7.3 stdlib to the 2.7.6 stdlib, and py3k work. He's interested in having commit for

Re: [python-committers] LCA2014 presentation on Zuul, OpenStack's merge gating system

2014-01-18 Thread Alex Gaynor
While I'm not a particularly active python-developer, I have spent quite a bit of time using OpenStack's Zuul/gerrit system/workflow and all I can say is it: It is the right way to write software. Huge +1 from me on every project using it :-) Alex On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Nick Coghlan

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly has been warned about his behaviour potentially leading to his loss of tracker privileges

2013-11-30 Thread Alex Gaynor
These steps sound right to me. Make the notification a private email, not a public one -- this doesn't have to be a big deal. It's not a warning shot to other people, this is one isolated individual, and we should treat it as such. Alex On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On

Re: [python-committers] Anatoly Techtonik's contribution (again)

2013-11-29 Thread Alex Gaynor
I'm not sure if it's because I'm reading the lists more, or if he's actually posting more, but I definitely seem to see him more frequently. And almost none of it is positive contribution, it's almost entirely people wasting time trying to humor him. I'm honestly not sure I've ever seen a discussio

Re: [python-committers] Python bug bounty

2013-11-07 Thread Alex Gaynor
Yes, we probably should. The Django project was contacted by them, I've we've been working with them to set up a workflow, when I saw this I'd assumed someone had been contacted for CPython. Alex On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Christian Heimes wrote: > Am 07.11.2013 11:45, schrieb M.-A. Lembur

Re: [python-committers] PEP commit privilieges for Donald Stufft?

2013-08-14 Thread Alex Gaynor
+1 from me, Donald is doing awesome work in this area. Alex On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Donald is the current main developer for PyPI and is doing a lot of > work on PyPI related PEPs this days - it would reduce the > administrative overhead if he could update the re

Re: [python-committers] PyCon US 2013 attendees

2013-02-25 Thread Alex Gaynor
I'll be there for the summit, conference, and murphy willing sprints. Alex On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Eli Bendersky wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Chris Jerdonek > wrote: > >> Is the attendee list for next March's PyCon available to registrants? >> What core developer

Re: [python-committers] Python Language Summit at PyCon US

2012-01-10 Thread Alex Gaynor
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Michael Foord wrote: > Hello Python Committers, > > As usual we will hold a Python Language Summit before the PyCon US > conference. > > The language summit will be in the conference hotel, to discuss the > ongoing development of the Python language. It will be hel

Re: [python-committers] Recording committer status in the bug tracker

2011-03-15 Thread Alex Gaynor
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:22 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > I added a boolean flag to the bug tracker indicating what user accounts > belong to committers. Please check that the flag is set in Your Details, > Is Committer. If it's not, please let me know. > > Regards, > Martin > _