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[python-committers] Recent buildbot.python.org changes

Zachary Ware zachary.ware+pydev at gmail.com
Fri Sep 14 17:02:19 EDT 2018 
Hi all,

Most of my effort this week has gone into improving the state of
buildbot.python.org, which has largely gone into improving Buildbot
itself.  Here are the relevant highlights:

- Anyone can now log into buildbot.python.org via GitHub by clicking
the 'Anonymous' dropdown in the upper right corner, then 'Login with
GitHub'.  The first time, GitHub will ask you for approval;
subsequently you'll just be logged right in.

- Stopping builds and triggering rebuilds is now restricted to members
of the `python-core` team and the "owner" of a build.  I've not had
opportunity to test whether the author of a commit actually qualifies
as the "owner" or if only the committer does, but if anyone runs into
trouble with it please open an issue on the buildmaster-config repo.

- Disabling/enabling schedulers is now restricted to members of the
`python-release-managers` team.  We had an issue some months ago where
someone had apparently disabled the scheduler for one of our branches,
resulting in no builds on that branch for several days before we
noticed.  That shouldn't happen again!

- Buildbot now reports results from our stable builders on each tested
commit.  For now, we're still only running tests post-merge, so you
won't see new status checks on PRs, but you can find results on
https://github.com/python/cpython/commits/

Let me know if any of these changes negatively impact you, or if you
have suggestions for further improvement.

Regards,
-- 
Zach
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