Re: winbot status

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On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 10:03 PM, Tres Seaver <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Rackspace's very generous support of the Zope Foundation over many years
> is coming to an end this year.  I am soliciting advice from the Zope
> developer community on how to manage that transition.
>
> We have made use of the platform in two ways:
>
> Continuous Integration
> - ----------------------
>
> We have been running periodic tests on the 'winbot' host, allowing us to
> mainain a very high level of Windows compatibilty for the Foundation's
> software.
>
> However, keeping the tests up and running has become increasingly
> difficult, due to the limited access to the machine and the small group of
> developers with both time and know-how to administer it.  At this point,
> the tests have been failing routinely since at least April, and pretty
> much nobody has a clue how to fix them.
>
> Building Windows Binaries
> - -------------------------
>
> We have used winbot to automate building eggs and Windows installers for
> Foundation-created packages, and uploading them to PyPI.
>
> With the ascendancy of the newer wheel format, the both formats are
> becoming much less broadly useful:  'pip' ignores them, and the newest
> Python version (3.3) for which we build them sunsets at the end of
> September this year.
>
> Summary
> - -------
>
> - - Without a continuing 100% subsidy, we *must* turn the box of by the
>   end of the year.
> - - The machine is in a fragile/b0rken state right now
> - - Rather than dragging out the inevitable, I recommend we just
>   decommission the machine ASAP.  AFAIK, it contains no data we care
>   about, except for encrypted PyPI credentials for the
>   'zope.wineggbuilder' account:  we should remove them before shutting
>   the machine down..
>
> Discuss?
>

+1 for discontinuing it.

Thanks for the summary.

Jim

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te">On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 10:03 PM, Tres Seaver <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a h=
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Rackspace&#39;s very generous support of the Zope Foundation over many year=
s<br>
is coming to an end this year.=C2=A0 I am soliciting advice from the Zope<b=
r>
developer community on how to manage that transition.<br>
<br>
We have made use of the platform in two ways:<br>
<br>
Continuous Integration<br>
</span>- ----------------------<br>
<span class=3D""><br>
We have been running periodic tests on the &#39;winbot&#39; host, allowing =
us to<br>
mainain a very high level of Windows compatibilty for the Foundation&#39;s<=
br>
software.<br>
<br>
However, keeping the tests up and running has become increasingly<br>
difficult, due to the limited access to the machine and the small group of<=
br>
developers with both time and know-how to administer it.=C2=A0 At this poin=
t,<br>
the tests have been failing routinely since at least April, and pretty<br>
much nobody has a clue how to fix them.<br>
<br>
Building Windows Binaries<br>
</span>- -------------------------<br>
<span class=3D""><br>
We have used winbot to automate building eggs and Windows installers for<br=
>
Foundation-created packages, and uploading them to PyPI.<br>
<br>
With the ascendancy of the newer wheel format, the both formats are<br>
becoming much less broadly useful:=C2=A0 &#39;pip&#39; ignores them, and th=
e newest<br>
Python version (3.3) for which we build them sunsets at the end of<br>
September this year.<br>
<br>
Summary<br>
- -------<br>
<br>
</span>- - Without a continuing 100% subsidy, we *must* turn the box of by =
the<br>
=C2=A0 end of the year.<br>
- - The machine is in a fragile/b0rken state right now<br>
- - Rather than dragging out the inevitable, I recommend we just<br>
<span class=3D"">=C2=A0 decommission the machine ASAP.=C2=A0 AFAIK, it cont=
ains no data we care<br>
=C2=A0 about, except for encrypted PyPI credentials for the<br>
=C2=A0 &#39;zope.wineggbuilder&#39; account:=C2=A0 we should remove them be=
fore shutting<br>
=C2=A0 the machine down..<br>
<br>
Discuss?<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1 for discontinuing it=
.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the summary.</div><div><br></div><div=
>Jim</div><div><br></div></div>
</div></div>

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