> On Jun 8, 2015, at 3:38 AM, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: > > On 10:30 am, gl...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: >> >> I think that new hardware would still be preferable because this machine is >> old, slow, overtaxed, and unreliable. For example, it runs Speed Center as >> well as the OS X builder. We have redundancy in most of our other builders >> now, which is very useful especially during times of heavy activity, like >> sprints, where lots of concurrent builds are going on, but this is the sole >> OS X builder. >> >> Another area where redundancy would be nice is when doing upgrades. For >> example, if the download ever finishes, I'm going to pull the trigger on >> this Yosemite upgrade, and ... hopefully it works? If it doesn't, we will >> have zero Mac builders until someone in the data center that is donating >> hosting can plug a console into that machine and see why it didn't finish >> booting. There's not really a good way to manage this right now. >> >> Finally, it would be nice to actually support multiple pythons on multiple >> OS versions - all the still supported / updated ones, anyway - and we'd need >> multiple builders for that. > > I agree with all of this with one minor caveat - there are currently two OS X > slaves: > > http://buildbot.twistedmatrix.com/buildslaves/bot-exarkun-1 > http://buildbot.twistedmatrix.com/buildslaves/osuosl-osx10.6 > > (and incidentally if someone wants to rename the former I think that'd be > nice).
Heh, good to know! Is it possible to remotely administer the latter? Thanks, -glyph _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
