[Buildbot-devel] require python-2.5 on the server in Buildbot-1.0?

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Mark Roddy <markroddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I work on a closed source set of applications developed by/for a
> university research team.  We have a roadmap for upgrading to 2.5 that
> should take about 3-4 weeks to complete, but to quote my supervisor
> "Research sponsors to give money for software maintenance" so it just
> sits on the queue.  I agree with the "if it ain't broken, don't fix
> it" mantra, but in this specific case the primary motivation is a lack
> of resources, which is indicative of the other issues with the
> development processes here that I have to deal with.

It's also worth noting that computing has moved away from the
monolithic-system model (in which everyone has to use the same
software) to a many-systems model.  In many cases, folks implementing
a new application can build a custom system to suit it.  For example,
at Zmanda I installed a new box to run the buildmaster and its
necessities.  We happened to have a spare 1-CPU box, or I would have
used a VM.

Of course, the downside to allowing this kind of ad-hoc
system-building is version skew and subsequent pain in distributed
systems administration.  Then we get into issues of configuration
management that are probably too off-topic for this list :)

Dustin

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