Option 1 sounds good - picking a variety of OS and packaged SM versions. For 91 we may have to add a new OS into the mix - Fedora 35. I saw it was the only distro packaging mozjs91 (https://pkgs.org/search/?q=mozjs91)
-Nick On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 12:38 PM Adam Kocoloski <kocol...@apache.org> wrote: > > I see a couple of possible options: > > 1) Implicitly test against a matrix of SM versions because we use the > packages that are shipped with each supported OS in the CI matrix, e.g. > CentOS8 -> SM60, Ubuntu 20.04 -> SM68, Debian 11 -> SM78 (that last one’s not > in Jenkins CI yet I think). In this model we only add official support for > new SM versions when they show up in a supported distro. > > 2) Reinvigorate the couchdb-pkg machinery we use to generate SM 1.8.5 > packages to publish .debs for all supported SM versions, then add a new > matrix build to verify support. > > I guess the key question is whether we expect users to continue to depend on > distro packages for their actual production installation. If so, then I’m not > sure a separate matrix offers a great return on investment. We could easily > end up in a situation where CouchDB works with the SM package that we built > for CI, but not the one the distro maintainers ended up publishing. That > said, if someone wants to do the work, great! > > An option to trigger a manual integration run against a specific version of > SM also seems like an OK compromise to me. > > Adam > > > On Nov 26, 2021, at 5:23 AM, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Hey all, > > > > we recently received a nice contribution (SpiderMonkey 91 support) as a > > community contribution: > > > > https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/3842/files > > > > It includes a GH workflow that includes building said SM version to prove > > that it works, which is very nice. > > > > We currently don’t really test a matrix of SM versions, and we probably > > don’t want to build sm from source on each CI run. > > > > My question to you is how you think we should handle this? > > > > Best > > Jan > > — > > Professional Support for Apache CouchDB: > > https://neighbourhood.ie/couchdb-support/ > > > > 24/7 Observation for your CouchDB Instances: > > https://opservatory.app > > >
