[Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:49 PM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 12:04:10 +0200, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 11:38 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>> > On 02.06.2015 21:07, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
>> >> Hi
>> >>
>> >> There was a PSF-sponsored effort to improve the situation with the
>> >> https://bitbucket.org/pypy/codespeed2/src being written (thank you
>> >> PSF). It's not better enough than codespeed that I would like, but
>> >> gives some opportunities.
>> >>
>> >> That said, we have a benchmark machine for benchmarking cpython and I
>> >> never deployed nightly benchmarks of cpython for a variety of reasons.
>> >>
>> >> * would be cool to get a small VM to set up the web front
>> >>
>> >> * people told me that py3k is only interesting, so I did not set it up
>> >> for py3k because benchmarks are mostly missing
>> >>
>> >> I'm willing to set up a nightly speed.python.org using nightly build
>> >> on python 2 and possible python 3 if there is an interest. I need
>> >> support from someone maintaining python buildbot to setup builds and a
>> >> VM to set up stuff, otherwise I'm good to go
>> >>
>> >> DISCLAIMER: I did facilitate in codespeed rewrite that was not as
>> >> successful as I would have hoped. I did not receive any money from the
>> >> PSF on that though.
>> >
>> > I think we should look into getting speed.python.org up and
>> > running for both Python 2 and 3 branches:
>> >
>> >      https://speed.python.org/
>> >
>> > What would it take to make that happen ?
>>
>> I guess ideal would be some cooperation from some of the cpython devs,
>> so say someone can setup cpython buildbot
>
> What does "set up cpython buildbot" mean in this context?

The way it works is dual - there is a program running the benchmarks
(the runner) which is in the pypy case run by the pypy buildbot and
the web side that reports stuff. So someone who has access to cpython
buildbot would be useful.