[Python-Dev] Community buildbots and Python release quality metrics

[Ralf Schmitt]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 6:54 PM,  <glyph at divmod.com> wrote:
> On 04:42 pm, schmir at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> an explanation about *why* Django cannot even be imported than a
>>> blanket complaint that this is a disgrace. So why is it?
>
>> and already discussed:
>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-April/078421.html
>
> Following that trail of breadcrumbs, I ended up here:
>
>   http://bugs.python.org/issue2235
>
> with a message from some guy named "Barry Warsaw" (anyone know him?) that
> says:
>
>  """
>  Guido, can you comment on Amaury's latest patch?  I'm going to bump this
>  back to critical so as not to hold up 2.6 alpha, but it should be marked
>  as a release blocker for the first beta.
>  """
>
> I don't know if this "Barry" guy has the appropriate permissions on the
> bugtracker to increase priorities, so I've taken the liberty of upgrading it
> as a release blocker for the _second_ beta ... ;-).  So, at least there's
> been one productive consequence of this discussion.

this patch even make things worse for me. now py.test also dies.