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[Python-Dev] Where is our official policy of what platforms we do support?

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu May 15 19:14:55 CEST 2014 
On Thu, 15 May 2014 09:40:33 -0500
Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Brett Cannon <bcannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I view stable buildbots as staying up and testing critical platforms.
> 
> Would "supported" and "unsupported" (or "critical" and "optional"?)
> make more sense? "Unstable" suggests "broken" to me, not "we don't
> really care about these."

I don't know who came up with these names in the first place.
However there's a slight nuance here: some platform may be supported,
but still some buildbot end up in the "unstable" category if it has
issues of its own (for example the machine has a flaky network
connection, etc.). And indeed there are Linux and Windows machines in
the "unstable" category.

Regards

Antoine.
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