[Twisted-Python] removing twistedchecker buildbot for the time being

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

Right now it seems the difference-computation logic on the twistedchecker buildbot has just broken completely. It's introducing useless noise into the build results because it makes every actually-passing build into a big red 'X' on the pull request status page. I think I'm going to remove it. Any objections?

-glyph

[Adi Roiban]

Post by Glyph Lefkowitz
Right now it seems the difference-computation logic on the twistedchecker
buildbot has just broken completely. It's introducing useless noise into
the build results because it makes every actually-passing build into a big
red 'X' on the pull request status page. I think I'm going to remove it.
Any objections?

1. Maybe use the --diff option on Buildbot.

2. We can move it to Travis based on the --diff option, ticket pending
review https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/8572
And if we move to Travis, get rid of tox-travis so that we can have
multiple jobs for the same python version,
https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/8535

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I am +1 for removing the buildbot specific logic and allow to run a diff on
the local branch, so that it is much easier to work on improving the diff
functionality.

[Adi Roiban]

Post by Adi Roiban

Post by Glyph Lefkowitz
Right now it seems the difference-computation logic on the twistedchecker
buildbot has just broken completely. It's introducing useless noise into
the build results because it makes every actually-passing build into a big
red 'X' on the pull request status page. I think I'm going to remove it.
Any objections?

1. Maybe use the --diff option on Buildbot.
2. We can move it to Travis based on the --diff option, ticket pending
review https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/8572
And if we move to Travis, get rid of tox-travis so that we can have
multiple jobs for the same python version,
https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/8535
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I am +1 for removing the buildbot specific logic and allow to run a diff
on the local branch, so that it is much easier to work on improving the
diff functionality.

The twistechecker buildbot builder was removed ... as for a short time we
had twistechecker running on Travis-CI

For more details see https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/8572

twistedchecker --diff needs to be improved --
https://github.com/twisted/twistedchecker/issues

Has anyone used https://pypi.python.org/pypi/diff_cover ?

Since twistedchecker is based on pylint I was thinking that maybe we can
reuse that code :)