On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu> wrote: > In discussions with Perry Greenfield at STScI, it seems we are in the > position of being able to get some financial support to pay for a > continuous integration system. > > Travis has shown itself to be rather glitchy for matplotlib. The tight > integration with Github PRs is really convenient. However, matplotlib > has longer test runs and more dependencies than many projects. The > frequent false positives start to wear down at a certain point. And we > still aren't testing everything because we can't aren't installing > Inkscape and other things in the Travis VM. > > So we're looking to add another paid, hosted continuous integration > service that will better meet our needs. A hosted service is nice > because it's easy to give multiple developers access to the system so > anyone can tweak it and keep it going -- the bottleneck of a single > developer responsible for maintenance of the build machine was a problem > years ago when we were using buildbot. This may remain "in addition to" > rather than "instead of" Travis for some time. > > An obvious first choice to me is ShiningPanda, as I have experience > using it for astropy. Jenkins (the software Shining Panda is based on), > is a really easy-to-use system, for those not familiar with it. And we > can store the output of the tests (i.e. the result_images) for later > inspection. I think this feature alone is huge for matplotlib. They > also offer Windows build slaves. There is no OS-X (probably because > Apple licensing doesn't really allow for use in a VM), but results can > be "published" to their Jenkins instance. > > Are there any other similar alternatives we should consider before we > move forward? > > Mike
I think hosted infrastructure is the right choice. I was initially going to suggest that we try and work with a bespoke solution. That way we could roll our own build architectures. On reflection I think the maintenance headache of managing our own build slaves outweighs the convenience of having it hosted, as you point out. -- Damon McDougall http://www.damon-is-a-geek.com Institute for Computational Engineering Sciences 201 E. 24th St. Stop C0200 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1229 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
