Ah, I get it now -- there's only 1 Travis; it's a hosted service.  I missed 
that point before.  :-)

For usNIC, we just need libnl (including .h files) or libnl3; either one is 
fine.


> On Oct 12, 2015, at 3:26 PM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> On Oct 12, 2015, at 2:50 PM, Hefty, Sean <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm not sure I understand the distinction...?
>> 
>> I'm referring to a script that is *stored in the upstream github tree*.  
>> This is an 'ofiwg' script, not a vendor script.  Today that builds the 
>> sockets provider and runs all fabtests against it.
> 
> OIC.
> 
>> We won't be able to run the other providers, but we should be able to build 
>> them.  
> 
> Well, maybe.
> 
> Are you saying that everyone who does the CI testing has to use the upstream 
> Travis config?  I don't think we want to do that.
> 
> E.g., I don't anticipate downloading and installing PSM, PSM2, uGNI, ...etc. 
> dependent libraries.  I'll test what I can easily test, and add that to the 
> union of what other people are testing.  I.e., as a *project* we want to 
> ensure that all of those providers can compile and install, but you don't 
> necessarily need to require that *everyone* compile/install *all* providers.  
> You only care that the union of all testing covers all providers.
> 
> I think the best bet would be to define a baseline of what you want people to 
> test as part of the github CI stuff.  E.g., run the fabtests.  If they run 
> exactly those guidelines, great.  If they do more than that, that's also 
> great.
> 
> For example, my tests will likely be some variation of running the fabtests, 
> plus perhaps a few other minor sanity checks to ensure that usnic is working 
> properly.
> 
>> The question is what policy to use in selecting the external libraries.  
>> That's the input I'm looking for, rather than just picking some policy on my 
>> own.
> 
> I still think that this is a decision best left to the individual testing 
> sites.
> 
> I.e., I don't know if that travis.yml file will be suitable for everyone 
> without any local editing for their local setup.
> 
>> Why does this matter?  It matters because this is run as soon as the pull 
>> *request* is opened.  If the test fails, the PR is flagged with the failure. 
>>  Github allows us to prevent merging PRs which have failed the pre-merge 
>> checks.  Today they are only flagged.
> 
> I saw that Github recently added this, too.  Based on our experience at the 
> Open MPI github, false positives happen more than you would hope/like.  :-\  
> I.e., a Jenkins goes wonky at some particular site for whatever reason -- 
> either the test incorrectly fails, or someone accidentally changed something 
> at that testing site, or ...one of a hundred other reasons.
> 
> My $0.02 would be to not enable that new Github feature until you can get 
> some confidence in everyone's CI testing.
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Squyres
> [email protected]
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> 


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