Re: [hibernate-dev] [Search] Travis support
Hi Sanne,
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Sanne Grinovero <sanne(a)hibernate.org>
wrote:
I am a bit skeptical as we have CI working already on
ci.hibernate.org
and having limited people we can't really afford to fix things which
already work.
I perfectly understand that. I wanted to experiment it without bothering
you about it.
To summarize what I like of Travis:
- simple configuration
- not much maintenance from our side
- your recommendation counts
- they pay the bills?
- you say that it's very popular among Java developers.
About the popularity point, you surprised me. I honestly thought that
we should stay on Jenkins because that was the most popular one. Do
you have some data to back that nowadays people are more familiar with
Travis?
It's very widespread in the Open Source projects running on GitHub, either
in Java, Ruby, PHP, Python and so on.
HikariCP for instance uses Travis and there are a lot of others projects
using it: https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP .
We use Jenkins at my company too for our private projects but we use Travis
for our Open Source ones.
Finally I have been burned several times by not having "root
access"
on the whole thing. I guess Docker might make this reasoning moot now,
but it's something to consider.
It's also quite important that we make sure our releases are created
in a reliable environment, so there's the trust issue of delegating
the keys to the kingdom to a third party. I'd even like it we could
start "signing" the artifacts we release as some users mentioned that
this would be important for them.
Yes, Travis won't replace the release tasks. I think it's good for the day
to day builds and PR builds and we should only use it for that - if we
decide to use it.
Sorry to be skeptical, I didn't mean to stress the negative
aspects
but to clarify that there are many aspects to consider for such a
move.
I'm definitely open to consider using it for a subset of jobs, like
you mentioned the PR review system might be a good fit.
It's also a good thing for sure to test in additional environments:
can it also run jobs on Windows and OSX ? We're missing that.. we
could fix the lack of Windows via AWS but that has a steep price tag..
I'll rather volunteer an old laptop from home.
They have OSX support but it's sparse. It's mostly here to test MacOS and
iOS apps. They don't have Windows support.
--
Guillaume