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[Python-Dev] Buildbot report (almost July)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Jun 29 13:13:05 EDT 2017 
On 6/29/2017 11:09 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Our buildbots are now even more stable than in my previous buildbot report.
> 
> Many random failures have been fixed, even if there are still many
> rare random failures (most of them are related to multiprocessing).
> 
> Search for issues created by "haypo" (me!) with the Component "Tests"
> to see all remaining issues. I'm trying to open an issue for *each*
> buildbot failure! So yeah, we have a long list of 44 open issues!
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but, for the first time, *all reference
> leaks* have been fixed on *all branches* (2.7, 3.5, 3.6 and master),
> on *Linux and Windows*! Before, we mostly focused on the master branch
> (called "default" in Mercurial) on Linux.
> 
> I also started to fix a few "memory block" leaks, most (or all?) of
> them should also be fixed (on all branches, on Linux and Windows).
> 
> A new policy has been decided (on python-committers): if a commit
> breaks too many buildbots and cannot fixed easily nor quickly, the
> commit will be reverted, just to keep our buildbots "green". It
> doesn't mean that the commit will be rejected forever. It's a
> practical solution to give more time to write a proper fix, take time
> to review it, and not have to be stressed to fix buildbots "ASAP".
> Moreover, keeping green buildbots all the time allows to catch
> regressions more quickly, which ease debug in many ways.
> 
> You have be warned! Now I will not hesitate to revert your change if
> you break my little buildbots ;-)
> 
> I mostly care of Linux, Windows, macOS and FreeBSD (10 and CURRENT).
> Breaking other platforms is less important, since other platforms
> already have issues, but not enough developers interested to fix them.
> Obviously, I'm interested in keeping more buildbots green, if someone
> shows up and help me to fix remaining issues!

Great work.

How about compiler warnings (and errors)?  When I compile on Windows, 
there are a boatload of orange-yellow warnings.  Some are about using a 
deprecated featured; some about dodgy casts; some (I presume) about 
other things.  Should 'no warnings' be a goal?

I believe you once fixed some, but new commits added more.  Could 'no 
additional warnings' be a CI requirement for merging? I expect that a 
new "How to avoid compiler warnings on Windows" section of the devguide 
would be needed.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy
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