[Twisted-Python] [Twisted-web] Twisted is removing Python 2.6 support

[Glyph]

> On Jun 8, 2015, at 3:38 AM, exarkun at twistedmatrix.com wrote:
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> On 10:30 am, glyph at twistedmatrix.com wrote:
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>> I think that new hardware would still be preferable because this machine is old, slow, overtaxed, and unreliable.  For example, it runs Speed Center as well as the OS X builder.  We have redundancy in most of our other builders now, which is very useful especially during times of heavy activity, like sprints, where lots of concurrent builds are going on, but this is the sole OS X builder.
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>> Another area where redundancy would be nice is when doing upgrades. For example, if the download ever finishes, I'm going to pull the trigger on this Yosemite upgrade, and ... hopefully it works?  If it doesn't, we will have zero Mac builders until someone in the data center that is donating hosting can plug a console into that machine and see why it didn't finish booting.  There's not really a good way to manage this right now.
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>> Finally, it would be nice to actually support multiple pythons on multiple OS versions - all the still supported / updated ones, anyway - and we'd need multiple builders for that.
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> I agree with all of this with one minor caveat - there are currently two OS X slaves:
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> http://buildbot.twistedmatrix.com/buildslaves/bot-exarkun-1
> http://buildbot.twistedmatrix.com/buildslaves/osuosl-osx10.6
> 
> (and incidentally if someone wants to rename the former I think that'd be nice).

Heh, good to know!  Is it possible to remotely administer the latter?

Thanks,

-glyph