[QGIS-Developer] [PSA] Travis CI is up and running again

[Alessandro Pasotti]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Travis CI stopped working today and reported nothing but failures.
>
> # The good news
>
> It's up and running again.
>
> # Affected pull requests
>
> If you have a pull request which errored, either push a new commit to
> your branch (if you have something that you wanted to push anyway) or
> close and reopen the pull request.
>
> # Cause
>
> It was caused by the switch of the default distribution from precise to
> trusty. (Read more about it here
> https://blog.travis-ci.com/2017-07-11-trusty-as-default-linux-is-coming).
> Right now it's quite easy to revert (once you know what's actually going
> on).
>
> # Perspective
>
> Mid-term we will have to migrate to something newer though.
> Travis also offers support for trusty but that's quite old as well. We
> are currently looking into a couple of different approaches like
> building our depencies for trusty and shipping them via a ppa or using a
> docker container with the dependencies. The main requirement is that the
> whole dependency build process is scripted and can be done
> collaboratively (something the current osgeo4travis dependencies don't
> fulfill which I'm eager to retire).
>
> Cheers
> Matthias
>


Thanks Matthias for the good news, you know we (@ boundless) have an
established workflow for nightly builds of docker QGIS testing images,
basically the docker images are build with Vagrant on AWS through a jenkins
task that schedules the builds and pushes them to docker hub.

The images are then pulled by Travis and the tests are run inside the
docker images on Travis.

Maybe something similar can be developed for the dependencies, please le me
know if we can help.


Cheers.

-- 
Alessandro Pasotti
w3:   www.itopen.it
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