On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:11:39AM -0700, Clark Boylan wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Thought I would give a recap of the Cross Community CI event that Fatih, > Melvin, and Robyn hosted prior to the ONS conference this last weekend. As a > small disclaimer there was a lot to ingest over a short period of time so > apologies if I misremember and get names or projects or topics wrong. > > The event had representatives from OpenStack, Ansible, Linux Foundation, > OpenDaylight, OPNFV, ONAP, CNCF, and fd.io (and probably others that I don't > remember). The event was largely split into two halves, the first a get to > know each project (the community they represent, the tools and methods they > use and the challenges they face) and the second working together to reach > common understanding on topics such as vocabulary, tooling pracitices, and > addressing particular issues that affect many of us. Notes were taken for > each day (half) and can be found on mozilla's etherpad [0] [1]. > > My biggest takeaway from the event was that while we produce different > software we face many of the same challenges performing CI/CD for this > software and there is a lot of opportunity for us to work together. In many > cases we already use many of the same tools. Gerrit for example is quite > popular with the LF projects. In other places we have made distinct choices > like Jenkins or Zuul or Gitlab CI, but still have to solve similar issues > across these tools like security of job runs and signing of release artifacts. > > I've personally volunteered along with Trevor Bramwell at the LF to sort out > some of the common security issues we face running arbitrary code pulled down > from the Internet. Another topic that had a lot of interest was building (or > consuming some existing if it already exists) message bus to enable machine > to machine communication between CI systems. This would help groups like > OPNFV which are integrating the output of OpenStack and others to know when > there are new things that needs testing and where to get them. > > Basically we previously operated in silos despite significant overlap in > tooling and issues we face and since we all work on open source software > little prevents us from working together so we should do that more. If this > sounds like a good idea and is interesting to you there is a wiki [2] with > information on places to collaborate. Currently there are things like a > mailing list, freenode IRC channel (other chat tools too if you prefer), and > a wiki. Feel free to sign up and get involved. Also I'm happy to give my > thoughts on the event if you have further questions. > > [0] https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/infra_cicd_day1 > [1] https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/infra_cicd_day2 > [2] https://gitlab.openci.io/openci/community/wikis/home#collaboration-tools > > Thank you to everyone who helped organize and attended making it a success, > Clark > Great report,
What was the feedback about continuing these meetings ever 6 / 12 months? Do you think it was a one off or something that looks to grow into a recurring event? I'm interested in the message bus topic myself, it reminds me to rebase some fedmsg patches :) Thanks for the report, Paul _______________________________________________ OpenStack-Infra mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra
