Hi, I'd like to announce that we now have a (somewhat) working system for doing continuous integration (CI) of the LyX master branch on Linux.
The system is currently doing this: - Polls the LyX repository at git.lyx.org (every few hours) - If branch 'master' has changed, then it builds LyX in two different configurations - Ubuntu 16.04, Qt4, Autotools - Ubuntu 16.04, Qt5, CMake You can see the status of some CI jobs on this web page: https://ci.inria.fr/lyx/job/build-master-head/ The CI platform is provided by Inria, thanks to Jean-Marc and Guillaume. Joel has also been part of the discussions, and talking with them led to me setting up this CI system for LyX. For access to the CI server etc, contact Jean-Marc or Guillaume. The CI server is a Jenkins instance that distributes jobs to virtual machines (CI workers), where we today currently use two Linux VMs. The actual building of LyX is done by Docker containers, one container for each configuration as per above, so the CI worker doesn't actually have to be running Linux. Here's a link to one of the Docker images at Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/lyxproject/build-lyx-using-ubuntu-latest-qt5-cmake/ The Dockerfile has more details and usage instructions, e.g. in case you'd like to use a Docker container to perform the same build locally. Regards, Christian PS. Regarding the part of "somewhat" working: Currently builds mostly fail because I'm trying out different settings or the CI worker runs out of disk space.. But someday a build will perhaps fail due to bad LyX code, in which case we could catch it. The CI system should build on more configurations, and probably build more branches than just 'master'. And it should also be running test cases. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-70 687 39 44
