Cool. Pardon my novice level understanding of containers and devops. Am I correct in saying that the plan is to use Docker to improve the efficiency of testing for MediaWiki?
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Antoine Musso <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Running all tests for MediaWiki and matching what CI/Jenkins is running > has been a constant challenge for everyone, myself included. Today I am > introducing Quibble, a python script that clone MediaWiki, set it up and > run test commands. > > It is a follow up to the Vienna Hackathon in 2017. We had a lot of > discussion to make the CI jobs reproducible on a local machine and to > unify the logic at a single place. Today, I have added a few jobs to > mediawiki/core. > > An immediate advantage is that they run in Docker containers and will > start running as soon as an execution slot is available. That will be > faster than the old jobs (suffixed with -jessie) that had to wait for a > virtual machine to be made available. > > A second advantage, is one can exactly reproduce the build on a local > computer and even hack code for a fix up. > > The setup guide is available from the source repository > (integration/quibble.git): > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/integration/quibble/ > > The minimal example would be: > > git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/integration/quibble > cd quibble > python3 -m pip install -e . > quibble > > A few more details are available in this post on the QA list: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/qa/2018-April/002699.html > > Please give it a try and send issues, support requests to Phabricator: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/quibble/ > > > > Next week I will polish up support for MediaWiki extensions and skins > and eventually Quibble will take over most of the CI jobs running for > MediaWiki related projects. > > > -- > Antoine "hashar" Musso > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
