[Qgis-psc] Contributing QGIS testing environment docker

[Alessandro Pasotti]

Thanks for the feedback, I think it's a good idea to add it to the plug-in
builder.

Let's see if we can get it done.

On Fri, Nov 9, 2018, 10:04 Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com wrote:

> Hi Ale
>
> On 09 Nov 2018, at 10:30, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been contacted by Boundless because they are willing to fund the move
> under the QGIS org umbrella of the QGIS testing environment docker that I
> originally created when I was working with them.
>
> The purpose of the project is to perform CI testing of python plugins
> directly in the QGIS application without using the mocked interface.
>
> The project is basically a docker that contains:
> - a QGIS build
> - a bunch of python scripts that make it easy to run unit tests in the
> docker
> - documentation and examples about how to use it on travis and circle-ci
> (latter is to be done yet)
>
> The project is actively maintained (by me) and used by many different QGIS
> plugin projects (at least  dozen that I'm aware of).
>
> The plan is to:
> - refactor the image to start from qgis/qgis3-build-deps
> - move the automated builds from AWS to Circle-CI and  (continuously)
> deploy the dockers on docker hub, the following images will be built and
> kept on the hub:
>    - master nightly
>    - every point release and every release that is not EOL
> - move the repo under
> https://github.com/qgis/qgis-testing-environment-docker
> - (maybe) move the documentation under official QGIS documentation
> (developmen/plugins)
>
> Project repos:
> https://github.com/elpaso/qgis-testing-environment-docker
> https://github.com/boundlessgeo/qgis-testing-environment-docker
>
> There should not be any cost for the QGIS organization, as long as the
> builds on Circle-CI remain free and docker hub do not charge for the images.
>
> I think this is a nice contribution to the community!
>
> So, the question before I start is: are there any objections/concerns?
>
>
>
> From my side I can say we have been extremely happy using this environment
> you created, and I would really love to see it becoming an official part of
> QGIS.org. One suggestion from me would be to also ask them to fund
> updating the plugin builder plugin so that generate plugins are out of the
> box ready set up to run their tests in travis against your testing docker
> image. Along with that some notes in the readme in the generated plugins
> explaining to the user how to enable travis for their newly created plugin.
> Without that addition I suspect that many users will remain unaware of the
> cool work you have done here.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
>
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