the uber-PR with the core plugin API changes has merged (thank you @bitter-ability-32190 and @hundreds-father-404!!!)

I’ve opened 3 small follow-ups to address TODOs: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/17360 https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/17361 https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/17362

I’ve started working on the actual batching impl for

pytest

. I am hopeful that I can get it done by end-of-week, but @witty-crayon-22786 if you don’t want to wait I think I have an idea for a work-around

17360 above adds a

[pytest].skip

option. I think we can use that to experiment with batched pytest in Color’s repo by perma-skipping the “default” pytest subsystem and defining (copy-pasting) a parallel subsystem with different rules

the main benefit to waiting for

pantsbuild/pants

would be to have a real example of using the new APIs in the repo, and to flush out any rough edges in the API before release

I leave it up to you all to decide on the trade-offs - I’ll be plugging away at it either way 🙂

i’d feel better having the actual implementation landed, and then we can pick a few more things to

2.15.0a

releases if it’s horribly broken.