Tests & CI

[Camille]

Hi all,

As discussed during the Paris sprint and more recently in a Kdenlive 
café with Nicolas, I'd like to help setting up a relevant CI for Kdenlive.

There is already a general KDE CI that builds  the code for various 
platforms [1], but I have yet to understand how it works, mostly from an 
organizational point of view. Nicolas mentioned that the main point of 
Contact is Ben Cooksley, but  I have not contacted him yet. One thing to 
be noted, is that this CI could be already useful, for instance, as it 
shows that  requiring MLT 6.10 broke the build. [2]

In parallel, I have set up an experimental CI on Gitlab.com, because it 
seemed to me that it could have a few  advantages, especially in terms  
of flexibility.

What I have done so far is just to mirror the code and write a simple 
.gitlab-ci.yml file on the refactoring_timeline branch: it builds the 
code, runs cppcheck  in the "build" stage then runs "build/runTests 
-platform offscreen" in the test stage.

The results of cppcheck are available in the artifacts of the build 
stage [3] and the result of runTests are in the logs of the test stage 
[4]. Please note that the test stage fails not because of the results of 
the tests, but because runTests segfaults (purposely, if I recall 
correctly). One detail : it should be easy  to get email notifications 
on the results (I get them as owner of the repo, but  I guess anyone 
could subscribe).

So, in short term, I see two (non exclusive) possible actions :

- Contact  KDE infrastructure team to have an instance that suits you ; 
that means : the OS of your choice, the right branch to be tested 
(refactoring_timeline I guess ) and automatically running runTests

- Clean/adapt the .gitlab-ci.yml file, add it to the code repo and 
automatically mirror the repo on an official kdenlive acccount on a 
gitlab instance (it doesn't have to be gitlab.com).

What do you think about it?

Cheers,

Camille


[1] https://build.kde.org/job/Applications%20kdenlive%20kf5-qt5%20SUSEQt5.9/

[2] 
https://build.kde.org/job/Applications%20kdenlive%20kf5-qt5%20SUSEQt5.9/34/

[3] 
https://gitlab.com/camillem/kdenlive-mirror/-/jobs/81024447/artifacts/download

[4] https://gitlab.com/camillem/kdenlive-mirror/-/jobs/81024448