BLD: network exceptions, related to revised network decorator?

[jreback]

http://scatterci.github.io/ScatterCI-Pandas/

[jreback]

#6111

We have lots of network tests, these are just unusually unreliable. We could ping the author
and disable them until fixed.

I think we finally nailed this.

[jreback]

crossing fingers....hopping on 1 leg ...

There still some flakes left, but I think the network nightmare is behind us.
No sense in setting up email notifcations until we get rid of all this noise.

[jreback]

here is a flake (was running on rebased master): https://travis-ci.org/jreback/pandas/jobs/17868712

pushed fix, we're getting there.

[jreback]

http://scatterci.github.io/pydata/pandas the failing sparc 3 build failied because of a really odd IOError
see that one before? its like it did a partial read

It's the server returning bad data. There's no way to supress that.
Looks like there's still some random errors, including stuff I tested and made
sure is supressed when running the tests manually. perhaps a py3 thing, I'll
look.

Still not fixed. :(

[jreback]

looks like a newish one: HTTPError: HTTP Error 502: Proxy Error (in lastest 2.6 sparc build