Karl Rupp <[email protected]> writes: > On 4/25/19 6:53 PM, Jed Brown wrote: >> Karl Rupp via petsc-dev <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> With some effort we can certainly address 1.) and to some extent 3.), >>> probably 4.) as well, but I don't know how to solve 2.) and 5.) with >>> Jenkins. Given that a significant effort is required for 1.), 3.) and >>> 4.) anyway, I'm starting to get more and more comfortable with the idea >>> of rolling our own CI infrastructure (which has been suggested in some >>> of Barry's snarky remarks already ;-) ). Small Python scripts for >>> executing the tests and pushing results to Bitbucket as well as a >>> central result storage can replicate our existing setup with a few lines >>> of codes, while being much more flexible. >> >> I think further commitment to Bitbucket would be a liability. > > Suggestions? Github, Gitlab, something else?
I like both of these significantly more than Bitbucket. >> On existing open source CI tools, I think looking at how the project >> itself uses CI is a good indicator. Some examples of recent PRs with >> test failures, see what needs to be done to narrow down what failed. >> >> https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/pull/4726 >> >> https://github.com/drone/drone/pull/2363 >> >> https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/27652 (click Expand >> on the test failure) >> >> https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/3991 > > All of these offer more than what we have now. And yet, many offer > features we will never need and force upon us some constraints on our > workflow. Maybe other CI tools are better suited for PETSc than Jenkins > - I don't know, but maybe others know :-) > > Our requirements for a package-manager-like PETSc with all its possible > external packages and weird software stacks on supercomputers are > different to 'standard' software, unfortunately. We could automate that better. Any flexible CI/CD system can work for us, provided it's easy to add agents. I've personally set that up for Jenkins and Gitlab-CI. The latter is much more convenient for subscribing agents. I don't have personal experience with Buildbot and Drone.
