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[Fedocal] Reminder meeting : Fedora CI SIG
by jbair＠redhat.com 20 Apr '21

20 Apr '21

Dear all, You are kindly invited to the meeting: Fedora CI SIG on 2021-04-21 from 09:30:00 to 10:00:00 America/Chicago At fedora-ci(a)irc.freenode.net The meeting will be about: Fedora CI SIG meeting More information available at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/CI Introduce projects, discuss issues and plans for the future. Please add topics to discuss into our etherpad: https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/fedora-ci This meeting is recurring for every other Wednesday. Source: https://calendar.fedoraproject.org//meeting/9901/

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tmt hint 01
by Petr Šplíchal 14 Apr '21

14 Apr '21

Hi! After the initial hint [1] describing the very first steps with tmt let's have a look at the available test execution options. The following user story was at the very beginning of tmt: As a tester or developer, I want to easily run tests in my preferred environment. Do you want to safely run tests without breaking your laptop? Use the default provision method 'virtual' which will execute tests under a virtual machine using libvirt with the help of testcloud: tmt run Would you like to execute tests a bit faster and don't need the full virtualization support? Run them in a container using podman: tmt run --all provision --how container Do you have an already prepared box where everything's ready for testing and you often ssh to it to experiment safely? tmt run --all provision --how connect --guest my.test.box Do you know exactly what the tests are doing and feel safe to quickly run them directly on your localhost? tmt run -a provision -h local Note that some provision methods require additional dependencies. Installing them is easy as well: sudo dnf install -y tmt-provision-container sudo dnf install -y tmt-provision-virtual See the tmt guide [2] and examples [3] for some more inspiration. Happy testing! :-) psss... [1] https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/tmt-hints-basic-test/ [2] https://tmt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide.html [3] https://tmt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html

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Gating feedback from early adopters after almost 2 years: It doesn't seem to work
by Miro Hrončok 12 Apr '21

12 Apr '21

Hello, I was torn whether to share this here or not. I don't want to be the one who always complains about things, but at the end I've decided that without honest feedback, there cannot be progress (and I've realized I already am that guy). Please don't take this feedback personally, I know that building things is hard. I don't criticize people, but the tools. Almost 2 years ago, we've decided to be the early adopters of gating in Fedora with the python-virtualenv package: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-virtualenv/c/66b7533376f Gating has proved more problematic than useful. It almost never works reliably, the problems are impossible to decipher and/or debug. Too often we had to ask for a CI-expert human intervention or straight out waive the results. The humans we've contacted were always very friendly, helpful and they were able to solve our issues. However, human-operated CIs unfortunately don't scale very well. At first, we assumed the issues will get ironed out with time, but there seem to be no visible progress. Moreover, the gating caught 0 issues, because we already test our changes via Pull Requests. I'm not sure if others have similar experience, or if we just got unlucky :( After a very bumpy ride, we've now removed the (quite incomprehensible) gating config, because frankly, it just gets in the way: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-virtualenv/pull-request/39 We will continue to run the CI in pull requests (which isn't perfect either but at least we have redundancy and we see visible progress there over time) and to run tests in %check (which works perfectly, but has many unfortunate limitations). Let me be 100% clear: The situation wrt CI is complex and brings many interesting challenges, but if I compare it with the dark ages before that, I would not trade. Thank you everybody for making Fedora a better place to contribute to. -- Miro Hrončok -- Phone: +420777974800 IRC: mhroncok

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[Fedocal] Reminder meeting : Fedora CI SIG
by jbair＠redhat.com 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

Dear all, You are kindly invited to the meeting: Fedora CI SIG on 2021-04-07 from 09:30:00 to 10:00:00 America/Chicago At fedora-ci(a)irc.freenode.net The meeting will be about: Fedora CI SIG meeting More information available at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/CI Introduce projects, discuss issues and plans for the future. Please add topics to discuss into our etherpad: https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/fedora-ci This meeting is recurring for every other Wednesday. Source: https://calendar.fedoraproject.org//meeting/9901/

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[Fedocal] Reminder meeting : Fedora CI SIG
by jbair＠redhat.com 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

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