GSoC 2019 [Buildbot ideas]

[Rajdeep Bharati]

@Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> Oh, I see.

@Pierre Tardy <tardyp at gmail.com> Regarding the npm package: I think it
would be better to create a project generator CLI (which would create the
boilerplate project, similar to vue-cli or create-react-app). Do you think
that would work? Can I use yeoman to do this?

Thank you for help.
Rajdeep

On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 7:05 PM Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:

> Dear Rajdeep,
>
> On Sun, 7 Apr 2019 at 19:41, Rajdeep Bharati wrote:
> >
> > I found something which might help us: https://bors.tech/homu-io/
> https://github.com/barosl/homu.
> > I will try it set it up on my local system and get back to you.
> > Mojca
>
> This sounds nice, but I wonder if it would actually address any of our
> problems (I suspect not). Also, it explicitly says that the project
> was kind of abandoned and continued elsewhere?
>
> What this tool is trying to solve is to check the code again after
> potentially long code review process, and run CI again "just before
> merging". However some of our builds would take hours, or, well, on
> Travis you might get 2 hours of waiting time and then one hour of
> building, just to experience a timeout at the end anyway. This makes
> the "just before merging" kind of not-too-well-defined. Plus, half of
> our Travis failures are false negatives, and before this can be useful
> on the buildbot, we would need to be able to enable checking pull
> requests in a "safe way" (addendum: for such checking we could
> probably just as well engage a couple of machines which are completely
> decoupled from our main builders, which would run, say, just 10.5,
> 10.6, 10.9, and would not upload the results anywhere). When checking
> the base ... we have so little activity that this is practically never
> an issue. And with ports there are so many distinct ports, that this
> is also hardly ever an issue; and when it is, you would already notice
> that the PR cannot be merged.
>
> Mojca
>
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