[devel at bb.net] Weekly Meeting Notes

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

..today including an important decision regarding Python versions and
Buildbot master!


   1. *Introduction* (djmitche
   <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2016/buildbot.2016-05-03-16.33.log.html#l-11>,
   16:34:33)
   2. *Development week-in-review* (djmitche
   <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2016/buildbot.2016-05-03-16.33.log.html#l-13>,
   16:35:00)
      1. We have a healthy number of PRs, both bug fixes and contributed
      enhancements (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2016/buildbot.2016-05-03-16.33.log.html#l-24>,
      16:37:34)
      2. lots of improvements are to nine features, so it is gaining
      momentum (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2016/buildbot.2016-05-03-16.33.log.html#l-28>,
      16:38:14)
      3. *AGREED*: will release beta9 on Monday, potentially without
      buildbot-worker (like beta8) (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2016/buildbot.2016-05-03-16.33.log.html#l-46>,
      16:42:04)

   3. *service2.buildbot.net <http://service2.buildbot.net> downtime* (
   djmitche
   <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2016/buildbot.2016-05-03-16.33.log.html#l-52>,
   16:42:53)
      1. One of our three servers failed on Friday, and Amar brought it
      back up on Monday (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2016/buildbot.2016-05-03-16.33.log.html#l-53>,
      16:43:07)
      2. Some work nearby in OSUOSL dislodged its power cable, and the
      monitoring didn't alert Amar (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2016/buildbot.2016-05-03-16.33.log.html#l-54>,
      16:43:32)
      3. https://www.statuspage.io/pricing ? (sa2ajj
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2016/buildbot.2016-05-03-16.33.log.html#l-65>,
      16:45:14)
      4. *AGREED*: will set up uptimerobot.com to alert us of failures like
      this more quickly in the future (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2016/buildbot.2016-05-03-16.33.log.html#l-89>,
      16:49:34)

   4. *Bug 2340 Update* (djmitche
   <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2016/buildbot.2016-05-03-16.33.log.html#l-94>,
   16:51:26)
      1. removed usePTY worker-side configuration option (PR 2184) (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2016/buildbot.2016-05-03-16.33.log.html#l-134>,
      16:58:28)
      2. planning to have a release-able buildbot-worker this week, after
      which we can make a release candidate (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2016/buildbot.2016-05-03-16.33.log.html#l-136>,
      16:58:57)

   5. *Dropping Python 2.6* (djmitche
   <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2016/buildbot.2016-05-03-16.33.log.html#l-156>,
   17:04:31)
      1. Proposal is to drop master-side support for Python-2.6 (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2016/buildbot.2016-05-03-16.33.log.html#l-158>,
      17:04:48)
      2. pros/cons assembled before the meeting -
      https://pastebin.mozilla.org/8869523 (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2016/buildbot.2016-05-03-16.33.log.html#l-162>,
      17:05:58)
      3. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#RHEL_5 (
      tardyp
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2016/buildbot.2016-05-03-16.33.log.html#l-168>,
      17:08:37)
      4.
      https://github.com/buildbot/botherders/blob/master/policies/support.md
      (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2016/buildbot.2016-05-03-16.33.log.html#l-189>,
      17:13:05)
      5. *AGREED*: Buildbot will drop Python-2.6 support with the 0.9.0
      release (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2016/buildbot.2016-05-03-16.33.log.html#l-229>,
      17:24:44)
      6. (see chat log for details of the decision) (djmitche
      <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2016/buildbot.2016-05-03-16.33.log.html#l-231>,
      17:24:51)

   6. *E2E / Integration Testing* (djmitche
   <https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2016/buildbot.2016-05-03-16.33.log.html#l-269>,
   17:33:34)
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