GSoC 2019 [Buildbot ideas]

[Rajdeep Bharati]

Thank you for providing me with ideas. I will try to migrate the existing
setup to buildbot 2.x.

Rajdeep

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:32 PM Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:

> Dear Rajdeep,
>
> Sorry for some delay, but here are some other general ideas related to
> the buildbot.
>
> My feeling is that implementing https://trac.macports.org/ticket/55978
> alone might not be enough on its own to fill the full summer (I leave
> it up to Pierre to judge).
>
> If this project get selected, you could additionally – depending on
> your interests – either concentrate more on further improvements from
> the buildbot side (it's super useful software for us; it would be up
> to the buildbot community to assist and suggest how to extend the
> project), or spend some time on other buildbot or UI-related stuff on
> the MacPorts side, or any mixture of the two.
>
> Here are some random ideas from the MacPorts side.
>
> (a) Create a Portfile for buildbot 2.x
>     https://trac.macports.org/ticket/53006
> This could also be a suitable "starting task" for before the coding
> period as you would learn a bit about how packaging new software
> works; we are not yet sure what to do with javascript dependencies
> though.
>
> (b) (Stepwise) migrate our existing setup to buildbot 2.x
>     https://trac.macports.org/ticket/56044
> Requires more work, but it shouldn't be impossible to do; some parts
> would be needed anyway to make the UI testing possible at all.
>
> (c) Allow github authentication (might come almost for free with the
> new buildbot version)
>     https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52455
>
> (d) "Disposable builds" to allow doing pull requests with Buildbot
> One of the biggest issues with our CI is that Buildbot is only
> building ports when they have already been committed to master. For
> security reasons we use Travis and Azure to check pull requests, but
> we would prefer to use Buildbot instead if someone would manage to get
> disposable images running using libvirt (ideally down to 10.6, but
> even if just the latest ones were supported, that would already help):
>
> http://docs.buildbot.net/2.1.0/manual/configuration/workers-libvirt.html
>     https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
>
> (e) In case that statistics web app gets done by another student, a
> standalone / independent UI might be useful as you suggested in the
> other proposal. In that case one student could write the API at the
> very beginning and the UI in React or Vue could be done any time after
> the basic API is up and running. (It depends on the other proposal as
> well, I haven't seen any draft proposals yet, so cannot judge yet.)
>
> At some point you could also try to follow
>
> https://github.com/macports/macports-infrastructure/blob/master/buildbot/README.md
> for the old (= existing) buildbot setup as a reference (and complain
> whenever the instructions are not clear enough or buggy) and some kind
> of starting point before transition to 2.x.
>
> Don't hesitate to keep asking questions if you need any help or hints.
>
> Mojca
>
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