CI Task Force (CITF) - RIOT-OS/RIOT GitHub Wiki

Continuous Integration Task Force (CITF)

Members:

Charter

The primary goal of CITF is to improve on the current situation of automated builds and tests for RIOT OS, aka. continuous integration.

Work Items and Milestones

WP1

  • W1 Define mandatory and optional CI requirements
    • due: March 2016
  • W2 Select and evaluate candidates for a RIOT CI
    • due: April 2016
  • M1 Final decision on RIOT CI framework
    • due: May 2016

WP2

  • W3 Plan CI hardware and system architecture
    • hardware for CI master and slaves
    • linux distro, e.g. CentOS7, Debian, Ubuntu LTS
    • virtualization? VMs, container
  • W4 Setup and deploy RIOT CI framework
  • W5 Test and evaluate CI implementation
  • M2 CI ready to replace Travis

W1 - Requirements

Work item 1 defines mandatory and optional requirements, they are listed in the following subsections. To avoid confusion each point should be briefly explained.

mandatory

  • builds RIOT
  • fast and scalable
    • master-slave architecture to scale-out
    • allow for multiple, parallel job exec
  • stable and reliable
    • should run 24/7
    • regular updates
  • github-integration
    • monitors github for changes
    • i.e., commits, pull request
  • user management
    • log into CI with different roles, e.g. admin, user
    • grant rights to view, create, modify, delete jobs
    • grant rights to add, remove CI slaves
  • web interface
    • view CI jobs, even without login

optional

  • run tests on real hardware

W2 - CI candidates

Let's keep an open mind here and list any viable candidate, even if we have valid (but personal) objections on a certain software. For starters and some initial pointers there is an overview on Wikipedia.

Overview

Evaluation