From 00bf1efde13431a1da0dec63fc19b3a754088a99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zooko <>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 03:40:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add notes about buildbot policy and packages

[Imported from Trac: page BuildbotPolicy, version 3]
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 BuildbotPolicy.md | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/BuildbotPolicy.md b/BuildbotPolicy.md
index b15ea31..5db9c40 100644
--- a/BuildbotPolicy.md
+++ b/BuildbotPolicy.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-There are two classes of builder for the [Tahoe Buildbot](http://allmydata.org/buildbot/): *Supported* and *Unsupported*.  The basic policy is that if a supported builder goes red then we fix it right away.
+There are two classes of builder for the [Tahoe Buildbot](http://allmydata.org/buildbot/): *Supported* and *Unsupported*.  The basic policy is that packages are produced only when the supported builders are green, and if a supported builder goes red then we fix it right away.
 
 1.  It could be we just committed a patch that breaks Tahoe in a way that makes a test fail on that builder.  In this case we either:
   1.   Revert that patch.
@@ -12,4 +12,8 @@ There are two classes of builder for the [Tahoe Buildbot](http://allmydata.org/b
   1.  Commit a new patch which makes Tahoe work on that new configuration.
   1.  Get the administrator of that build machine to change the configuration so that Tahoe works again.
 
-In any of these cases, we might be unable to resolve the redness in a timely manner.  In that case we demote that builder from the *Supported Builders* page to the *Unsupported Builders* page, as linked from the *Buildbot* button at the top of every page on this site.
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+In any of these cases, we might be unable to resolve the redness in a timely manner.  In that case we demote that builder from the *Supported Builders* page to the *Unsupported Builders* page, as linked from the *Buildbot* button at the top of every page on this site.
+
+The fact that packages (.deb's, tarballs/zipfiles/etc., .egg's) are produced only when all supported builders are green means that you know when you download one of those packages that you are getting a package produced from a version of the source code that passed all tests on all supported platforms.
+
+(It might be nice if we did build packages even for versions of the software that didn't pass all tests, but segregated those packages somehow, such as put them in a separate download directory or a separate apt repository.  I don't know exactly how to program buildbot to do that, though.  --Zooko 2009-03-08)
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