That's great news, thanks a lot Francis!

The option of using actions for CI is really appealing especially if you
say that is fast.
I am trying to enable slow tests in Travis but I don't think it is going to
happen since
they are really slow. I will try to see what can be done using actions.

Best,
Stamatis




On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 1:24 PM Michael Mior <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sounds great! I've been wanting to play around with GitHub Actions
> more myself and this sounds encouraging.
> --
> Michael Mior
> [email protected]
>
> Le lun. 19 août 2019 à 18:15, Francis Chuang
> <[email protected]> a écrit :
> >
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > Previously I mentioned that I was working on automated website builds
> > for the Calcite (and avatica and avatica-go subwebsite) Website [1] and
> > I wanted to give you guys some updates.
> >
> > The initial attempt was to use the git-websites jenkins node to build
> > the site, however I ran into a few issues:
> > - I couldn't get a Jenkins build to trigger only when a new tag that
> > matches a regex is pushed.
> > - The jenkins build can sometimes be unreliable and not trigger.
> >
> > Recently, Github released Github Actions, which allows not just CI/CD,
> > but the ability to run any piece of code in Javascript, a docker
> > container or a VM when an event triggers it [2]. The newest beta of
> > Github Actions is available to all projects under the ASF organization
> > on Github, so do check it out, it's pretty cool!
> >
> > I have successfully implemented automated site builds using Github
> > Actions in the test-site branch [3]. The builds now trigger correctly
> > and the only missing piece left is to let Github Actions have access to
> > the token to push to the Calcite-site repository. This is currently
> > tracked in INFRA-18874 [4].
> >
> > Github Actions can also be used for CI/CD, so it's a good candidate for
> > replacing Travis and Appveyor as Github also provides Windows nodes for
> > building. I did some initial work to test the waters with migrating
> > Avatica-Go [5]. Unfortunately, it seems to be missing some things, such
> > as the ability to set the command when running a service container. I am
> > sure these are things that will definitely be fixed/implemented in the
> > future as Actions is still in beta.
> >
> >  From my testing, Github Actions builds are really fast (9 minutes to
> > build the Javadoc for Calcite), so it's something we should consider for
> > Calcite + Avatica + Avatica-Go in the future.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > I've also started some discussion regarding Github Actions on the build@
> > list for more general discussion [6].
> >
> > Francis
> >
> > [1]
> >
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a86bf62901f4032027d7a247c33aa22e0f74ad423914967a86f769b8@%3Cdev.calcite.apache.org%3E
> >
> > [2] https://github.com/features/actions
> >
> > [3]
> >
> https://github.com/apache/calcite/commit/eb44ae0ae6f9e5197067452f036bd07c92b4c92a
> >
> > [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-18874
> >
> > [5]
> >
> https://github.com/apache/calcite-avatica-go/commit/a83e09408aeac7706b2a482d704e5d1c758eafb2
> >
> > [6]
> >
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/246c44267ddaede1cda516c4c825a3868cf617dbe09a6106a8a29d92@%3Cbuilds.apache.org%3E
>

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