[Python-Dev] Buildbots for trunk are all red

[Thomas Heller]

Neal Norwitz schrieb:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>>
>>  Well, in my opinion "batteries included" is great, but not when one of
>>  the batteries consistently acts up and requires a good shake to get
>>  working again. The bsddb module has consistent reliability issues when
>>  it comes to testing (and I suspect it has more to do with Sleepycat
>>  than the bindings). I know I am tired of getting buildbot errors
>>  saying that the bsddb tests died more consistently than most tests
>>  over their history.
> 
> I agree that bsddb has been a pain.  It's about 1 of 10 tests that
> fill that category.  I've been working on reducing these problems
> (recently: test_bsddb3, test_smptlib, test_xmlrpclib, and I'm sure
> there are others I forgot).  Rather than remove modules, it would be
> more productive if we fixed the flaky tests.  Then we wouldn't have to
> ignore failures, we could trust the buildbots.

Maybe the flaky tests could be moved towards the end?  This way we could
at least see if the other tests work.

Thomas