Opened at 2018-06-08T18:24:27Z
Closed at 2018-07-10T01:05:31Z
#2929 closed enhancement (fixed)
Use CircleCI for some builds
Reported by: | exarkun | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | normal | Milestone: | undecided |
Component: | unknown | Version: | 1.12.1 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Launchpad Bug: |
Description
CircleCI is a CI-as-a-Service similar to TravisCI. The Tahoe-LAFS project already uses TravisCI for some CI tasks. However, Tahoe-LAFS uses (and maintains) a BuildBot? deployment for some other CI tasks.
BuildBot? is used to run the test suite on the following platforms:
- CentOS 7
- Debian Jessie
- Debian Stretch
- Fedora 24
- OpenBSD 5.9/amd64
- OS X 10.13
- OpenBSD 6.3/amd64
- Ubuntu Xenial (16.04)
- raspbian "jesse"/arm
There are also BuildBot? jobs for checking against pending upstream deprecations and building tarballs.
TravisCI offers a couple or a few specific Linux distros for the build environment - mostly without overlap with the above list. It does offer support for Docker and so it would be possible to bootstrap a test environment for some of the Linux distributions in the above list. This would not help with the non-Linux platforms which cannot be run in a Docker container.
However, CircleCI offers first-class support for custom Docker images which makes it easier to test with alternate Linux distros. Unfortunately the cloud version doesn't offer support for custom VM images so non-Linux platforms are still out of luck.
CircleCI also offers macOS support (with a usage limit).
Compared to CircleCI, BuildBot? is more effort to maintain. Slaves present an _uninterestingly_ complex diversity of configurations (e.g., having tox 2.3.9 instead of 2.7.0 really does not matter to Tahoe-LAFS as far as any user-facing functionality is concerned: it only makes it harder to manage the CI system). Slaves are harder to update because each is a unique snowflake.
Therefore, it would be beneficial to move the Linux-based BuildBot? builders on to CircleCI.
All of the Linux platform test-running builders can likely be moved to CircleCI and retired.
Change History (1)
comment:1 Changed at 2018-07-10T01:05:31Z by exarkun
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
CircleCI configuration added in https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs/commit/814203961d935b4b010fe62575445d9f332b8514
Redundant BuildBot? builders reconfigured to only run tests not running on CircleCI now.