Re: planning for perf farm app

On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 10:52:26PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 1:06 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <
> stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> wrote:
>
> > On 02/13/2018 10:58 PM, Mark Wong wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Hi Mark!
> >
> > >
> > > I've been making some progress on some perf farm stuff and I just wanted
> > > to make sure I understand how to best work with the pg infrastructure
> > > when (if) we get far along to deploy something.
> >
> > good to hear that progress is made on that front!
> >
> > >
> > > We're planning on having a django application for distributed clients to
> > > be able to upload results, and for users to review results. Plus a
> > > supporting postgres database. Similar to how the build farm is
> > > structured.
> >
> > ok
> >
> > >
> > > So I'm wondering things like, should we stick to a particular django or
> > > python version, proof things on a particular linux distro (debian
> > > stretch?) and what not. And anything else we should be mindful of.
> > > Thanks!
> >
> > Well the postgresql.org infrastructure is running debian stretch and all
> > our current django applications are on django 1.8.18 in a custom (but
> > internally packaged) virtualenv - we have not yet decided on what
> > version we will move to next (because 1.8 will be EoS'd in April) but it
> > will likely be an LTS version.
> >
>
> Just to keep you updated, we do now have fully supported 1.11 out in
> production for a number of our sites, so that's the current target.
>
> Currently we only do 1.11 on python2, we do not have a python3 environment
> set up for it yet. 1.11 on py3 will be the next step following this one,
> but we aren't quite there yet.

Ok. If accepted, I'll be sure to instruct the student to use a python2
environment.

Regards,
Mark

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