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

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