WMF working group for the future of CI

Meeting 2019-03-08

On Google Hangouts Meet. Present:

The goal of this meeting is to review what's happened since yesterday's meeting and plan work until next meeting.

Actions from previous meeting:

Done: Lars to write up GitLab-CI evaluation in ticket.
TODO: Lars: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217595 (Concourse CI)
Done: Brennen to take next piece of software for evaluation off the stack once spreadsheet is more filled out.
Done: Dan to reach out to mobile developers at WMF to gather requirements for what's needed for building and testing moble apps in CI.
Done: Brennen to create ticket for evaluation of sourcehut
TODO: Brennen to double-check gerrithub
TODO: Željko to continue to look for more possible candidates
Done: Lars to draft next blog post

Brennen has evaluated sourcehut.
- Notes to be posted here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217852

Build workers for iOS building.
- Need to be Mac hardware running OS X.
- OIT seems happy to host MacMinis for OS X build works for CI, if need be.
- Lars suspects this is good enough, for now.

TODO: Lars to look at Concourse CI.
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217595
- Still in progress.

Discussion about containers as build workers.
- Non-Linux builds.
- Building things that can't be done in a (docker) container.

When shall we meet next? What should we do by then?
- TODO: Lars to suggest something for next week and wrangle a commonly suitable time

TODO: Lars to document how to build Blubber and run unit tests in CI
TODO: Dan to evaluate JenkinsX
TODO: Brennen to evaluate Zuul v3
- Extra diligence on this one as we're already using Zuul and Antoine has given us feedback that he's biased in favor of this direction.
TODO: Zeljko to evaluate HarborMaster