[Zope3-dev] working towards 3.4 alpha release

[Benji York]

Christian Theune wrote:
> I noticed that the buildbots have not run a successfull Zope 3 trunk
> build since March 25. :(

The only builder that is configured to run the trunk and is currently 
on-line is zc-buildbot, and it would appear to be running the tests with 
every trunk check-in.

OTOH, the 3.2, and 3.3 branches are broken and have been for quite some 
time.

Sidebar: when trying to kick off a run for those two branches those two 
builders started exhibiting assertion errors, I'm looking into why that is.

> Most of the clients are broken.

The single Windows slave that is "purple" is a result of bugs in 
twisted/buildbot.  Hopefully newer versions don't have these problems. 
(We currently run 0.6.6, 0.7.5 is the latest).  I don't have time to 
fight with upgrading at the moment.

Two others are off-line, see the nagging section below. ;)

> The one at ZC is good but hasn't been
> run for quite a while. 

zc-buildout appears to run the trunk tests with every check-in.  Is that 
the one you are referring to?  The 3.2 and 3.3 tests failed the last 
time they were manually run.  I don't think any changes have been made 
to those branches since, therefore not further runs have been triggered.

> Some of the rules that detect changes in the
> branches seem unreliable. 

Can you give an example?

> I propose to start make the clients do nightly builds. 

That's fine with me.  I can get that configured pretty easily.

> Also, do we have
> someone who is the official 'client nagging guy' to remind people when
> their buildbot clients die?

I'll be glad to nag anyone, but don't consider it a privilege available 
to only a few.  The slave names are pretty clear (a couple could be 
clearer), so anyone can get a good nag in once and a while.
-- 
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation