Re: Continuous integration

[Phillip Lord]

On Fri, March 24, 2017 4:31 pm, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 10:37:42 +0000 address@hidden (Phillip
> Lord) wrote:
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>
> PL> Ultimately, if our main criteria for a CI and code review system is
> PL> "does it work with EWW" or "can we have an emacs interface", then I
> PL> think that it's likely we are going to end up with something that is
> PL> poorly functional. Picking a good system and then making Emacs work
> with PL> it seems a better way forward.
>
>
> Agreed; it's probably going to be possible to use the GitLab API. It's
> pretty thorough https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/README.html


Just so.

I think we are jagging here. We have two CI systems that people have
looked at (gitlab, and I have buildbot working). gitlab also does code
review, and git front end hosting.

Which leaves us with the three technical/social questions:

1) Are John, Eli and the other devels interested and willing to sanction
adding this form of infrastructure (even as a trial)

2) Does the FSF have resource to provide the bare metal hosting assuming
we want to self-host, even as a trial?

3) Who is prepared to do an installation?

And, I would also pose a fourth moral question:

4) In addition to gnu/linux, can we provide a windows and mac builder,
given that this would by necessity involve non-free software (i.e. the
OSes).


In answer to question 3), I'm happy to do installation for a buildbot
based solution, since I already tried it just for "fun".

Phil