On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 5:03 AM Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote:

> On 06.04.2022 20:48, Brett Cannon wrote:
> > Last chance on whether my tier 3 proposal make sense! I will take
> silence as
> > acceptance and plan to convert any current tier 2 platform with a single
> core
> > dev to tier 3 and then ask the SC to approve/reject the list of
> platforms. I
> > will also update the PEP about expectations of when things must be
> considered
> > stable before b1, else a warning goes out that a platform risks being
> dropped in
> > the RC (regardless of tier).
> >
> > I will also be filling out the tiers to include the vendor, but I will
> be using
> > `unknown` instead of `*` since I haven't come across the latter online
> while I
> > come across the former regularly (e.g.
> > https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.html).
>
> Could you please post the current proposal somewhere to read in
> one complete piece ? It's become hard to figure out what is on
> the table at the moment and the PR also doesn't appear to be
> up to date:
>
> https://github.com/python/peps/pull/2442/files


The PR is now up-to-date! For ease of reference, here's the critical part:

Support tiers
=============

Platform support is broken down into *tiers*. Each tier comes with
different requirements which lead to different promises being made
about support.

To be promoted to a tier, steering council support is required and is
expected to be driven by team consensus. Demotion to a lower tier
occurs then the requirements of the current tier are no longer met for
a platform for an extended period of time based on the judgment of
the release manager or steering council. For platforms which no longer
meet the requirements of any tier by b1 of a new feature release, an
announcement will be made to warn the community of the pending removal
of support for the platform (e.g. in the b1 announcement). If the
platform is not brought into line for at least one of the tiers by the
first release candidate, it will be listed as unsupported in this PEP.

Tier 1
------

- `CI failures <
https://github.com/python/cpython/actions/workflows/build.yml?query=branch%3Amain+is%3Acompleted>`__
block releases.
- Changes which would break the ``main`` branch are not allowed to be
merged;
  any breakage should be fixed or reverted immediately.
- All core developers are responsible to keep ``main``, and thus these
  platforms, working.
- Failures on these platforms **block a release**.

======================== =====
Target Triple            Notes
======================== =====
i686-pc-windows-msvc
x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
x86_64-apple-darwin      BSD libc, clang
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu glibc, gcc
======================== =====


Tier 2
------

- Must have a reliable buildbot.
- At least **two** core developers are signed up to support the platform.
- Changes which break any of these platforms are to be **fixed or
  reverted within 24 hours**.
- Failures on these platforms **block a release**.

=========================== ==========================
============================================== ========
Target Triple               Notes                      Buildbot
                          Contacts
=========================== ==========================
============================================== ========
aarch64-apple-darwin        clang
https://buildbot.python.org/all/#/builders/725 Ned Deily, Ronald Oussoren,
Dong-he Na
aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu   glibc, gcc
https://buildbot.python.org/all/#/builders/125 Petr Viktorin, Victor Stinner

                            glibc, clang
https://buildbot.python.org/all/#/builders/234 Victor Stinner, Gregory P.
Smith
powerpcle-unknown-linux-gnu glibc, gcc
https://buildbot.python.org/all/#/builders/90  Petr Viktorin, Victor Stinner
x86_64-unknownlinux-gnu     glibc, clang
https://buildbot.python.org/all/#/builders/441 Victor Stinner, Gregory P.
Smith
=========================== ==========================
============================================== ========


Tier 3
------

- Must have a reliable buildbot.
- At least **one** core developer is signed up to support the platform.
- No response SLA to failures.
- Failures on these platforms do **not** block a release.

=========================== ==========================
============================================== ========
Target Triple               Notes                      Buildbot
                          Contacts
=========================== ==========================
============================================== ========
aarch64-pc-windows-msvc
https://buildbot.python.org/all/#/builders/729 Steve Dower
powerpcle-unknown-linux-gnu glibc, clang
https://buildbot.python.org/all/#/builders/435 Victor Stinner
x86_64-unknown-freebsd      BSD libc, clang
https://buildbot.python.org/all/#/builders/172 Victor Stinner
=========================== ==========================
============================================== ========


All other platforms
-------------------

Support for a platform may be partial within the code base, such as
from active development around platform support or accidentally.
Code changes to platforms not listed in the above tiers may rejected
or removed from the code base without a deprecation process if they
cause a maintenance burden or obstruct general improvements.

Platforms not listed here may be supported by the wider Python
community in some way. If your desired platform is not listed above,
please perform a search online to see if someone is already providing
support in some form.

-Brett


>
>
> Thanks.
>
> > On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 6:50 PM Victor Stinner <vstin...@python.org
> > <mailto:vstin...@python.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 11:19 PM Christian Heimes <
> christ...@python.org
> >     <mailto:christ...@python.org>> wrote:
> >     > How about:
> >     >
> >     > * a buildbot is required. For a transition period a public CI
> system,
> >     > that runs Python's test suite at least once per day, is also
> acceptable.
> >     >
> >     > * at least one active contributor who acts as a point of contact,
> >     > monitors CI and provides fixes in a timely fashion.
> >
> >     Sadly, I'm not sure that a regular contributor is enough to get fixes
> >     merged even fixes are written. Maybe it's better to require one core
> >     dev per Tier 3 platform.
> >
> >     What if tomorrow someone sets up a MinGW buildbot. Is it enough to
> >     promote MinGW as Tier 3? There are many MinGW patches awaiting in the
> >     bug tracker for *years* and nobody is available to review and merged
> >     them. (I didn't check recently, maybe some of them have been merged
> in
> >     the meanwhile?)
> >
> >     For the buildbot, IMO it's important that the whole test suite pass.
> >     I'm fine with skipping a large number of tests. But a single failure
> >     makes a buildbot really annoying, barely usuable, because buildbots
> >     are unable to say if a change adds more errors than previously. It's
> a
> >     boolean: either all tests pass, or "at least one test fails": you
> have
> >     to dig into logs to know the exact number :-(
> >
> >     Victor
> >     --
> >     Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my
> death.
>
>
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