> On Jun 8, 2015, at 8:33 AM, Amber Hawkie Brown <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Glyph and I have been discussing the state of "unsupported" buildbots for the > Twisted project, and some of the cleanup of unsupported platforms that I've > been doing. To get the reasons for this, and an idea of the future out, Glyph > suggested I post to the mailing list. > > In the past, a lot of the unsupported buildbots were platforms that we knew > didn't work. A lot of these have been tested for many months, kept in the > unsupported list, and not had much progress. We need to focus on the > unsupported builders that have a path to being supported, and get them onto > the supported list. > > I've now removed broken, absent, or superseded builders, giving us five > unsupported builders. These are: > > - FreeBSD 10.1, Python 3.4 -- Tests almost pass, waiting on > https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/7887 > <https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/7887> to make it all-green. Once it is > green, it can move to supported. > - OS X 10.6, Python 2.6, cfreactor -- There are only a few failing tests -- > soon, there'll be a OS X 10.10 cfreactor builder (once we get XCode installed > on it :) ) > - Python 3K Warnings -- Two failures, which are warnings counting -- should > be trivial. > - Ubuntu Trusty, Python 2.7, wxreactor -- broken, needs fixing > - Ubuntu Trusty, PyPy 2.4. -- 32 failing tests > http://buildbot.twistedmatrix.com/builders/trusty64-pypy-2.4/builds/132/steps/trial/logs/problems > > <http://buildbot.twistedmatrix.com/builders/trusty64-pypy-2.4/builds/132/steps/trial/logs/problems> > . Some are pypy, some are configuration related. > > These builders should ideally move into the 'supported' list in the future. > To do this, we need to: > > - Get https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/7887 > <https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/7887> reviewed to get the FreeBSD 10.1 > + Python 3.4 builder as a supported platform > - Fix https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/7931 > <https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/7931> to make the Python 3K Warnings > builder pass > - Get a new OS X 10.10 cfreactor builder, to see what failures there are on > Python 2.7 > - Redeploy the wxreactor builder, see what failures there are. I'm planning > to do this on a newly deployed Ubuntu 15.04 machine when I get time. > - File more tickets in > https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/query?group=status&milestone=PyPy-support > <https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/query?group=status&milestone=PyPy-support> > for the failures on the PyPy builder and fix them. I'm planning on also doing > a PyPy 2.6 builder using the aforementioned Ubuntu 15.04 buildbot, using the > PPA, which should shake out the new dict-sorting bugs. > > If you would like to see these builders become supported in the future, > please do consider helping out! :)
Thanks for writing up the plan like this, Amber. It sounds like a lot of these plans are really quite far along and we might not have any unsupported builders soon, which would be quite an accomplishment. -glyph
_______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list [email protected] http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
