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

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

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