On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 07:00:28PM +0300, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> On 12.12.2018 0:06, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 05:34:17PM +0300, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> >> CirrusCI [1] is free for open-sorce projects and provides similar
> >> to TravisCI interfaces. One significant difference is ability
> >> to run tasks on FreeBSD instances.
> >>
> >> This patch adds simple configuration file to test OVS build
> >> on two FreeBSD releases with gcc and clang.
> >> Unit tests are commented out because they are broken for now.
> >>
> >> To enable the automated checks Cirrus CI application from GitHub
> >> Marketplace should be installed. See details in Quick Start guide [2].
> >>
> >> [1] https://cirrus-ci.org
> >> [2] https://cirrus-ci.org/guide/quick-start/
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maxim...@samsung.com>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> This could be useful to test FreeBSD build automatically to early
> >> detect issues. CirrusCI looks suitable for that purpose and it's
> >> the only public CI system that I managed to find that supports
> >> FreeBSD images. Sending as RFC to start discussion.
> >>
> >> Few more differentiation points with Travis. Cirrus allows to
> >> configure number of CPUs and the amount of required memory. It
> >> also supports Linux, OSX and Windows containers. So, maybe, if
> >> we'll like it, we could drop Travis and AppVeyor and use single
> >> CI system for all the tests.
> >>
> >> I'm not advertising and not trying to convince to replace our
> >> current CI systems. I found CirrusCI just few days ago by a mail [3]
> >> in qemu-devel list. I just think that it's the only option for
> >> now to test BSD builds with public CI. And it worked fine for me
> >> with below configuration.
> >>
> >> Thoughts ?
> >>
> >> As a note: I just spotted that TravisCI adds windows support.
> >> Maybe we could use it in the future for windows builds.
> >>
> >> [3] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-12/msg00935.html
> > 
> > Good idea.  It's hard for me to see what harm this would cause, so I
> > enabled cirrus-ci at github and applied this to master.
> > 
> > The big weakness with appveyor is that its limits are too low to run the
> > whole OVS testsuite.  I wonder whether cirrus-ci has better limits for
> > this purpose.
> 
> As far as I know, the upper limit for resources is 8CPU + 24GB RAM. Default
> timeout for tasks is 60 minutes and it, probably, could be extended using
> special config in .yml file.

I think that the issue with appveyor is the time limit of 60 minutes.
If cirrus-ci can allow for a longer build time, it would probably make a
big difference.
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