<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 10:03 PM, Tres Seaver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tseaver@palladion.com" target="_blank">tseaver@palladion.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>
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Rackspace's very generous support of the Zope Foundation over many years<br>
is coming to an end this year. I am soliciting advice from the Zope<br>
developer community on how to manage that transition.<br>
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We have made use of the platform in two ways:<br>
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Continuous Integration<br>
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We have been running periodic tests on the 'winbot' host, allowing us to<br>
mainain a very high level of Windows compatibilty for the Foundation's<br>
software.<br>
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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. At this point,<br>
the tests have been failing routinely since at least April, and pretty<br>
much nobody has a clue how to fix them.<br>
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Building Windows Binaries<br>
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We have used winbot to automate building eggs and Windows installers for<br>
Foundation-created packages, and uploading them to PyPI.<br>
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With the ascendancy of the newer wheel format, the both formats are<br>
becoming much less broadly useful:Â 'pip' ignores them, and the newest<br>
Python version (3.3) for which we build them sunsets at the end of<br>
September this year.<br>
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Summary<br>
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</span>- - Without a continuing 100% subsidy, we *must* turn the box of by the<br>
 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=""> decommission the machine ASAP. AFAIK, it contains no data we care<br>
 about, except for encrypted PyPI credentials for the<br>
 'zope.wineggbuilder' account: we should remove them before shutting<br>
 the machine down..<br>
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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>
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