[Buildbot-devel] Hello!

[Vasily Kuz'min]

I stick to the idea that we should use Twisted, replacement framework
is fraught with negative consequences: it turns out too many
workarounds, because of what the code can give failure :(

2015-03-30 10:21 GMT+03:00 Jørn Lomax <northlomax at gmail.com>:
>
>
> On 29.03.2015 20:44, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>>
>> That link only actually works for you, and only mentors can see
>> proposals, but for the record Vasily's proposal is for "provide
>> forward compatibility for Python 3".
>>
>> We've had a few proposals for this project, actually, and I believe
>> all of the proposing students are on the buildbot-devel mailing list
>> now.  So perhaps this is a good time to talk about approaches to
>> porting Buildbot when Twisted is still not fully ported -- and in
>> particular, Perspective Broker, on which Buildbot relies heavily, is
>> still not ported.
>>
>> Dustin
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Vasily Kuz'min <vasily at freedom-web.ru>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello everyone!
>>>
>>> My name is Vasily Kuzmin. I study at Lomonosov Moscow State University
>>> and
>>> have almost completed the undergraduate program in "Advertising and
>>> Public
>>> Relations" Faculty of Philosophy. From the very beginning of my
>>> computer-related life in 2008 I was interested in Open Source world. I've
>>> used various Linux distros, though my favorite have always been Arch and
>>> Debian.
>>> The main point of my interest was the administration, especially
>>> web-development. Basically, I had to work with web-server Apache and
>>> Nginx,
>>> working in conjunction with PHP and MySQL. I have working experience on
>>> how
>>> to support debugging servlet in conjunction with Apache Tomcat and
>>> PostgreSQL.
>>> Recently I've started to learn Python, because I want to improve my
>>> skills,
>>> take a fresh look at the development of web-based applications and
>>> finally
>>> have an opportunity to apply my knowledge base to help the world of Open
>>> Source. Google Summer of Code seems to be a great place to start,
>>> especially
>>> for the last part, so I decided to try and enter GSoC.
>>> I chose buildbot for its simplicity and its extraordinary capabilities;
>>> it
>>> is a simple and convenient tool for testing and verification of code
>>> changes. Since I already have a basic knowledge of Python and even know
>>> about some corner cases about porting application to Python 3, I decided
>>> that the task to provide forward compatibility for Python 3 is exactly
>>> what
>>> I'd like to do.
>>>
>>> I've filled in the proposal on the Google Melange just yesterday: I've
>>> never
>>> participated in GSoC or similar projects before. I especially shy of this
>>> late proposal; I understand that it would have been certainly better to
>>> put
>>> my proposal earlier, but it is very hard to beat shyness. I'd definitely
>>> like to work on this project, so I'm opened to your questions and
>>> suggestions. You may found my proposal at the Melange site[0]
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>>
>>> [0]http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/student/google/gsoc2015/derzsky/5629499534213120
>>>
>>> --
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> I'm not that familiar with Perspective Broker, but are there any known
> alternatives that could be used as a temporary replacement? Not sure if it
> is a viable option though, since both the master and slave use pb and it
> would most likely have to be replaced in both, which is probably quite a big
> task. But it might be nice just to explore the possibility. The more you
> know the better you can make an informed decision.
>
> Porting pb is always an option. I have tried looking through the source for
> it, but github is still a little slow for me (don't know if they are still
> experiencing ddos) so It's hard to see how much code that would need
> porting. From what i have seen though, the twisted.spread library is pretty
> self contained and should be fairly portable
>
> A third option I can think of is using the past module[1], which is part of
> the python-future[2] library. It made to for just this use case, where a
> project relies on a library that is not ported yet. The downside is that it
> is very new and still experimental so our mileage may vary
>
>
> [1]https://pypi.python.org/pypi/past/
> [2]http://python-future.org/
>
> regards
> Jørn Lomax



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