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

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Fri Sep 14 19:10:33 EDT 2018 
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018, at 14:02, Zachary Ware wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for all your work.
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