I prefer to do this in separate PR's, to avoid huge changes. Also, with GA
the CI will be more stable :)

Cheers, Fokko

Op zo 20 dec. 2020 om 20:58 schreef Michael A. Smith <mich...@smith-li.com>:

> On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 6:13 AM Driesprong, Fokko <fo...@driesprong.frl>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > Thanks for bringing this up. I think it would be a great idea. I don't
> have
> > anything against Travis, but I like GA a lot. For example, their
> container
> > support is much better, and the syntax is cleaner. It also integrates
> > extremely well with Github itself. This can be nice if we want to have
> some
> > flow someday.
> >
> > When it comes to Apache Yetus, I must admit, I've implemented Yetus at
> the
> > time, but I'm not super familiar with the tool. I think the current
> > implementation doesn't get the value out of it that it promises to do.
> > Also, one of the reasons that the implementation is far from optimal
> > because it doesn't fit the project that well. I would suggest to remove
> it.
> >
> > One thing that concerns me a bit is the scattering of the commands in the
> > GA yml files and the build.sh. I would suggest moving everything into one
> > place. In the case of Github Actions, you can also run it easily locally:
> > https://github.com/nektos/act
>
> That sounds great. Is this something we can do iteratively, or did you
> have in mind doing it all in the one PR?
>
> >
> > Cheers, Fokko
> >
> >
> > Op zo 20 dec. 2020 om 06:05 schreef Michael A. Smith <
> mich...@smith-li.com>:
> >
> > > I created a PR to implement our tests in GitHub actions. I'd like to
> > > know if other folks are interested in me pursuing this further and
> > > replacing the Travis/Yetus build system.
> > >
> > > Some data:
> > > - In its current configuration, a Travis build that doesn't fail takes
> > > around 70 minutes.
> > > - Travis usually fails, often for reasons unrelated to a particular PR.
> > > - Understanding why it fails requires spelunking through thousands of
> > > lines of log files.
> > > - Casual contributors are disinclined to set up Travis for their
> > > forks, and can end up triggering multiple travis builds in an Apache
> > > PR to track down a bug.
> > > - The single Docker megafile tightly couples every language toolchain,
> > > so testing multiple language versions is difficult.
> > >
> > > All of these problems can be fixed within the Travis/Yetus build
> > > system (except maybe the "casual contributors" thing), I'm sure. But I
> > > have looked into it before and haven't been able to figure it out.
> > >
> > > Here's what I've done with GitHub actions:
> > > - Jobs are isolated by lang/* and only trigger when a change touches
> > > that language. Even if a problem is causing, say, Ruby tests to fail
> > > in master, PHP contributions can still make it through.
> > > - The tests are run in parallel, both across languages and within,
> > > across multiple language versions and interop and unit tests.
> > > - The slowest jobs (the Java tests) take 15 minutes. The worst case
> > > test run (aside from an outage) will probably be under 20 minutes, if
> > > we are heavily queued.
> > > - This PR tests java 8 and 11, js using node 10, 11 and 12, php 7.3,
> > > 7.4 and 8, python 3.6-3.9 and pypy3.6 and 3.7. Adding and removing
> > > language implementations is trivial.
> > > - If we merge this PR, anyone who forks the repo will get these
> > > actions in their fork.
> > >
> > > One thing I haven't yet implemented is an action for
> > > share/test/interop/bin/test_rpc_interop.sh. I think I can do that,
> > > too, but I want to know if this can go anywhere before I work on it
> > > more.
> > >
> > > WDYT?
> > >
> > > - Michael
> > >
>

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