According to past Infra tickets, CircleCI requires write access to our
git repos, and that's not allowed at Apache. I have no idea if that
limitation in CircleCI has ever been fixed.
On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 at 14:55, Davyd McColl <dav...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If supporting them can come at minimal or zero cost, I don't see why not.
> As stated before, this is already achieved within CircleCI, so I guess now
> it's up to either integrating that within Apache infra, or replicating
> elsewhere. I'm checking out appveyer too. At some point, though, I'd really
> appreciate some guidance into what direction(s) would be acceptable, before
> I've tried every CI service available.
>
> -d
>
>
> On April 27, 2020 21:44:29 Dominik Psenner <dpsen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Mileage may vary, but I see no point in supporting ancient frameworks.
> > Better support only few valuable targets well and offload maintenance
> > efforts to whoever needs other targets that are hard to support. For
> > instance, whoever builds against client profile could fork and build
> > log4net from source. Patches to make it work are valuable and always
> > welcome, now and anytime in the future. Those patches may not be mergable
> > into develop/master either as they could live in their own branch if
> > necessary.
> > --
> > Sent from my phone. Typos are a kind gift to anyone who happens to find
> > them.
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 21:13 Davyd McColl <dav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks, I've already tried using mono for cross-compilation, but older
> >> targets (and specifically client profile) make this option a bit of a
> >> non-starter. I got it mostly working, but mostly isn't all the way.
> >>
> >> CircleCI provides a good build environment, which I'm probably going to
> >> try
> >> to replicate in docker, though that would still require a windows host.
> >>
> >> -d
> >>
> >>
> >> On April 27, 2020 21:07:50 Dominik Psenner <dpsen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > As apache folks, we have the benefit of sponsored msdn subscriptions and
> >> > thus some sponsored computing time in azure. May that be an option?
> >> >
> >> > I dont know about the tasks involved.
> >> >
> >> > I can also think of cross compiling on ubuntu inside docker by
leveraging
> >> > dotnet-sdk and linking against the reference assemblies shipped with
mono
> >> > or other requirements that can be provided with Dockerfile's, github
> >> > actions or other build infrastructure. This [1] is a reference project
> >> that
> >> > works and may serve as a minimalistic sample that, to be honest, is pure
> >> > net core/netstandard and therefore lacks mono.
> >> >
> >> > [1] https://github.com/dpsenner/event-sorcery
> >> > --
> >> > Sent from my phone. Typos are a kind gift to anyone who happens to find
> >> > them.
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 16:48 Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Looks like AppVeyor is another option. Is that comparable to CircleCI?
> >> >>
> >> >> (For context, I'm mostly familiar with Jenkins as I work on that
> >> >> project at $dayjob)
> >> >>
> >> >> On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 at 09:36, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Seems like I missed some other services:
> >> >> https://infra.apache.org/services.html
> >> >> >
> >> >> > If nothing on there is appropriate, I think we need to create a Jira
> >> >> > ticket in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA
> >> >> >
> >> >> > On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 at 01:28, Davyd McColl <dav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > What would need to be done to make other CI systems talk with
Apache
> >> >> Infra?
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > I ask because I've spend around a day now trying to convince Travis
> >> CI
> >> >> to build log4net successfully, without a lot of joy, particularly
> >> because
> >> >> the Travis Windows build environment is quite out of date, having been
> >> >> launched as a beta service in 2018, with tooling from 2015. I can get
> >> >> vs2019 installed via chocolatey packages, which solves most of the
> >> >> requirements, but haven't had joy in getting .net 3.5 to install on the
> >> >> build machine yet, resulting in predictable build failures. In
addition,
> >> >> the installation of vs2019 tooling adds a few minutes to build.
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > In contrast, build at CircleCI has been simple, quick, and, best of
> >> >> all, works. I've also figured out artifact publishing, so, with the
> >> >> addition of some scripting, one possible solution might be for an
Apache
> >> >> Jenkins build job to simply download the nuget package from
CircleCI and
> >> >> publish it -- meaning that Apache nuget keys don't have to leave secure
> >> >> premises, which is a good thing (: For example, a parameterised build
> >> which
> >> >> is given only a build number could be manually kicked off when a
release
> >> >> has been approved by all involved. This build could download the .nupkg
> >> >> from CircleCI and publish to nuget.org.
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > If this (or something similar) seems like a viable option, I may be
> >> in
> >> >> a position to raise a PR (after cleaning up some git history -- I
> >> probably
> >> >> have 50 or 100 commits which are only attempts at getting TravisCI to
> >> build
> >> >> with varying approaches.
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > -d
> >> >> > > On 2020-04-25 22:15:36, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> > > The only external build systems that are set up for Apache
right now
> >> >> > > are Travis and some limited GitHub Action experiments. Other CI
> >> >> > > systems may need to talk with Apache Infra.
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 at 14:47, Davyd McColl wrote:
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > > > Thanks for the reply (:
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > > > Would external build systems like circleci be acceptable too?
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > > > -d
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > > > On April 25, 2020 21:03:01 Matt Sicker wrote:
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > > > > Info about our existing infra is documented here:
> >> >> > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/Jenkins
> >> >> > > > >
> >> >> > > > > On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 at 13:38, Davyd McColl wrote:
> >> >> > > > >>
> >> >> > > > >> Hi
> >> >> > > > >>
> >> >> > > > >> Quick question: what operating system does the available CI
> >> >> server run?
> >> >> > > > >> Even if docker is an option, the host system is matters.
> >> >> > > > >>
> >> >> > > > >> Thanks
> >> >> > > > >> -d
> >> >> > > > >>
> >> >> > > > >>
> >> >> > > > >
> >> >> > > > >
> >> >> > > > > --
> >> >> > > > > Matt Sicker
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > --
> >> >> > > Matt Sicker
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > --
> >> >> > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
> >> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
--
Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
