[Python-buildbots] Moving Python.org to Buildbot 9 + Python 3

[Victor Stinner]

2017-10-06 21:35 GMT+02:00 Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at crodrigues.org>:
> http://buildbot.python.org/test/

The new UI LGTM. It seems like email notifications are also working.
So everything seems to be ready from my point of view.

I propose right now to start moving (slowly) buildbot slaves from the
old buildbot 0.8/Python 2 instance to the new buildbot 0.9/Python 3
instance. We can stop the migration if things go bad, or even rollback
in the worst case.

I'm fully in favor of moving to buildbot 0.9 since previously we used
a fork of buildbot, and I hate to maintain a fork. We have limited
resources working on buildbots: mostly Zachary Ware, R. David Murray
and me. I'm taking any change which gives us less work to do for the
long-term :-)

We now have a major buildbot contributor, Craig Rodrigues, who offers
his strong support for the migration. So if something goes wrong, we
will harass him until he fixes buildbot :-D

By the way, it like the idea of eating our own dog food: migrate from
Python 2 to Python 3 :-)

Victor