On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 at 01:44, Eric D Helms <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am beginning to look at updating some of our test infrastructure by > re-writing Jenkins jobs into the pipeline plugin [1]. This is a new style, > with a different way of both writing and thinking about how jobs are > crafted. I've started this work by attempting to write jobs for both > Foreman and Katello [2]. > > The current test_develop job for Foreman (which runs after pull requests > are merged) is a 4x3 matrix resulting in 12 different configurations > running. They are: > > ruby: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.4 > databases: mysql, postgresql, sqlite3 > > I would like to propose the following: > > 1) We drop sqlite3 entirely > :-1: Having an option to use sqlite3 is very convenient for small patch devel setup, I would vote to keep it at least for one ruby version -- Ivan > 2) We test all rubies on postgresql only > 3) We pick the most widely used Ruby version and test mysql with that > > This would effectively reduce the number of test runs in the matrix to 5 > which should in theory increase throughput of testing and keep things > focused on the most important pieces to test. Further, sqlite3 is not a > production database so I feel it not worth the resources (but it would only > add one more job to keep it). I also don't see how Ruby version should > affect database choice and thus find no reason to run the full matrix > across all rubies for Mysql. > > From what I think I know, of the Rubies: > > 2.2 -- used in RPM production > 2.1, 2.3, 2.4 -- used by Debian production > > [1] https://jenkins.io/doc/book/pipeline/ > [2] https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-infra/pull/321 > > -- > Eric D. Helms > Red Hat Engineering > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "foreman-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "foreman-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
