[Python-checkins] buildbot warnings in hppa Ubuntu dapper 2.5

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Brett Cannon schrieb:
> Another failure because a connection timed out.  There was also a
> failure because the connection was reset.
> 
> Would it be worth it to have a function in test_support just for
> network calls that suppresses both timed out connection exceptinos and
> connection resets by chaining calls to
> test.test_support.TransientResource() using contextlib.nested?

It would certainly be valuable to filter out false positives.

Newer buildbot versions apparently have support for filtering
log files, but there are multiple obstacles to using them:
- new versions of buildbot and twisted are needed, essentially
   making a switch only reasonable with the next Debian release
   (which should arrive soon)
- the code to do the filtering and to compute build step results
   from that would have to be written

So I think it is more reasonable to put this filtering into regrtest.
If you are shy of turning it on globally, turning it on only under
buildbot might be helpful - it should be easy to give regrtest an
option "running under buildbot".

Regards,
Martin