[Ci-users] More info on apps.ci.centos.org?

Thu Sep 28 21:03:09 UTC 2017
Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org>



On Thu, Sep 28, 2017, at 04:50 PM, Ari LiVigni wrote:
> I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but we already are doing this without PAPR on PRs as part of the CI-Pipeline[1] in that same Openshift environment.
> We actually rebuild our own containers and validate them with our pipeline code in a stage pipeline before they get rolled into production.[1]

Yep, that is cool!

> I would like to avoid duplication of work if you guys are looking to the same thing and understand is there something that PAPR has over what we are currently doing for the ci-pipeline.

Well there's two things conceptually; PAPR is a way to
test pull requests, but it's pretty integrated now into
our Homu instance, which adds quite a bit of logic
on top of github's default flow:
https://github.com/servo/homu/#why-is-it-needed

And in particular for us, I personally really, really dislike merge commits
for single commit PRs.  It makes `git log` much harder to read.

Compare e.g.:
https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/commits/master
with your typical github project that uses merges;
we also have pretty stringent commit message requirements,
(IMO) comparable to Linux kernel core quality;
https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/commit/030d2b1525a49c356210c18f57655afd9f474b4f
is a good random example of a 2 paragraph explanation
for a 1 line change (written by a contributor matching our standards).

Homu is definitely wedged awkwardly on top of github's
current review flow; there's no doubt we're "fighting"
github to an extent.  But the results for me are very
much worth it.  

I'm aware other people feel it's easier to just work with
whatever Github does by default; e.g. the
https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/commits/master
project made that switch when they moved to Github.

The Kubernetes (and OpenShift) projects use [Prow](http://prow.k8s.io/)
which hass some similar logic, although it generates merge
commits.

There's some other discussion related to this here:
https://github.com/projectatomic/papr/issues/62

I'm very interested in share at least some code though!
Having things in CentOS CI seems like a good start?