Tests & CI

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dimecres, 11 de juliol de 2018, a les 20:31:30 CEST, Camille va escriure:
> 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?

Please try to work with the upstream CI, I personally think it's not a great 
idea to have two CI, since it means duplicating the efforts.

Best Regards,
  Albert

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