Re: [PATCH 0/5] QEMU Gating CI

[Cleber Rosa]

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> From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <address@hidden>
> To: "Cleber Rosa" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Alex Bennée" <address@hidden>, "Peter Maydell" <address@hidden>, 
> address@hidden, "Fam
> Zheng" <address@hidden>, "Thomas Huth" <address@hidden>, "Eduardo Habkost" 
> <address@hidden>, "Erik Skultety"
> <address@hidden>, "Wainer Moschetta" <address@hidden>, "Wainer dos Santos 
> Moschetta"
> <address@hidden>, "Willian Rampazzo" <address@hidden>, "Philippe 
> Mathieu-Daudé" <address@hidden>,
> "Beraldo Leal" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2020 8:38:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] QEMU Gating CI
> 
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 03:36:11PM -0400, Cleber Rosa wrote:
> > The idea about a public facing Gating CI for QEMU was lastly
> > summarized in an RFC[1].  Since then, it was decided that a
> > simpler version should be attempted first.
> > 
> > Changes from the RFC patches[2] accompanying the RFC document:
> > 
> > - Moved gating job definitions to .gitlab-ci-gating.yml
> > - Added info on "--disable-libssh" build option requirement
> >   (https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1838763) to Ubuntu 18.04 jobs
> > - Added info on "--disable-glusterfs" build option requirement
> >   (there's no static version of those libs in distro supplied
> >   packages) to one
> > - Dropped ubuntu-18.04.3-x86_64-notools job definition, because it
> >   doesn't fall into the general scope of gating job described by PMM
> >   (and it did not run any test)
> > - Added w32 and w64 cross builds based on Fedora 30
> > - Added a FreeBSD based job that builds all targets and runs `make
> >   check`
> > - Added "-j`nproc`" and "-j`sysctl -n hw.ncpu`" options to make as a
> >   simple but effective way of speeding up the builds and tests by
> >   using a number of make jobs matching the number of CPUs
> > - Because the Ansible playbooks reference the content on Dockerfiles,
> >   some fixes to some Dockerfiles caught in the process were included
> > - New patch with script to check or wait on a pipeline execution
> > 
> > [1] - https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-12/msg00231.html
> > [2] - https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-02/msg00154.html
> > 
> > Cleber Rosa (5):
> >   tests/docker: add CentOS 8 Dockerfile
> >   tests/docker: make "buildah bud" output similar to "docker build"
> >   GitLab CI: avoid calling before_scripts on unintended jobs
> >   GitLab Gating CI: introduce pipeline-status contrib script
> >   GitLab Gating CI: initial set of jobs, documentation and scripts
> > 
> >  .gitlab-ci-gating.yml                         | 111 ++++++++++
> >  .gitlab-ci.yml                                |  32 ++-
> >  contrib/ci/orgs/qemu/build-environment.yml    | 208 ++++++++++++++++++
> >  contrib/ci/orgs/qemu/gitlab-runner.yml        |  65 ++++++
> >  contrib/ci/orgs/qemu/inventory                |   2 +
> >  contrib/ci/orgs/qemu/vars.yml                 |  13 ++
> >  contrib/ci/scripts/gitlab-pipeline-status     | 148 +++++++++++++
> 
> FYI, the contrib/ directory is generally a place for arbitrary / adhoc
> but interesting user contributed files/sources that are not officially
> supported deliverables of the project.
> 
> IOW, this is not a good home for the official CI scripts.
> 

Good point, reason is that I wasn't/ain't sure this script is going
to be "official" and really that useful.  I'm happy to move it
somewhere else though.

> We already have a .gitlab-ci.d/ directory that looks like it would
> be good for this.  Or if that's not suitable, then scripts/ci/ is
> a second choice.
> 

Ack.

Thanks!
- Cleber.

> >  docs/devel/testing.rst                        | 142 ++++++++++++
> >  tests/docker/dockerfiles/centos8.docker       |  32 +++
> >  .../dockerfiles/debian-win32-cross.docker     |   2 +-
> >  10 files changed, 751 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 .gitlab-ci-gating.yml
> >  create mode 100644 contrib/ci/orgs/qemu/build-environment.yml
> >  create mode 100644 contrib/ci/orgs/qemu/gitlab-runner.yml
> >  create mode 100644 contrib/ci/orgs/qemu/inventory
> >  create mode 100644 contrib/ci/orgs/qemu/vars.yml
> >  create mode 100755 contrib/ci/scripts/gitlab-pipeline-status
> >  create mode 100644 tests/docker/dockerfiles/centos8.docker
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
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