[Python-Dev] February bug day outcome

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Feb 24, 2008, at 10:06 PM, Neal Norwitz wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 6:52 PM, A.M. Kuchling <amk at amk.ca> wrote:
>> Yesterday's bug day was another success, closing 48 issues.  Several
>> committers were there: Facundo Bastista, Georg Brandl, and Christian
>> Heimes.  Facundo organized a local group of participants, and we
>> committed a number of contributions from new people.
>>
>> Should we have one next month?  The PyCon sprint will fall on Monday
>> through Thursday, and few people not at PyCon will be available  
>> during
>> the work week.  OTOH, if we scheduled a bug day for the 29th, that's
>> two weeks after the conference, and we may have recovered from our
>> PyCon burnout at that point.  What do people think?
>
> I'd rather push it out to mid-month assuming Barry starts releasing
> alphas at the end of each month.  That should provide some time to
> stabalize.  Any one see the buildbots recently? :-(
> http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/

That's a really good idea.  At least for the alpha's I would like to  
have a policy that the monthly release goes out unless

1) There are critical bugs open for 2.6 and/or 3.0
2) The important buildbots are red (maybe)

In either case, it should probably be a priority for bug day to repair  
those failures.

On #1, I don't think there's a way to get roundup to give me exactly  
that report, e.g. all critical open bugs on both 2.6 and 3.0.  Maybe  
I'm missing something, but given my intent, I'd find that useful.  I  
know I can get search for each Python version independently, so that's  
good enough for now.  Right now, I believe there are no critical bugs  
open on either version.

On #2, clearly we can't wait for greens across the board, so which  
platforms are important enough to hold up a monthly release?  I'd say  
something representative of the source release and each of the binary  
releases we make, so maybe:

2.6: source = x86 gentoo trunk, windows = x86 xp-4 trunk, mac = g4 osx. 
4 trunk
3.0: source = x86 gentoo 3.0, windows = x86 xp-4 3.0, mac g4 osx.4 3.0

Unfortunately, basing release status on buildbot health doesn't look  
very encouraging. :(

- -Barry

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