Re: Fwd: [CI] What are the troubles projects face with CI and Infra

2020-02-10 Thread Tee
Another thing worth mentioning is the overhead with providing, setting up, and managing infrastructure. While donations of servers/VM’s works to some extent, it’s a somewhat archaic donation policy – and this whole structure of CI gives both the ASF and the C* project very limited choices. From

Re: Fwd: [CI] What are the troubles projects face with CI and Infra

2020-02-08 Thread Rahul Singh
Related to instances, can we get those credits put to use that Amazon promised to give back to the community as part of their Amazon Managed Cassandra Service announcement? Alternatively if there is an appetite to set something in patreon or GitHub’s donation platform , it may be a good way to

Re: Fwd: [CI] What are the troubles projects face with CI and Infra

2020-02-03 Thread David Capwell
Following Mick's format =) ** Lack of trust (aka reliability) Mick said it best, but should also add that we have slow tests and tests which don't do anything. Effort is needed to improve our current tests and to make sure future tests are stable (cleaning up works, isolation, etc.); this is

Re: Fwd: [CI] What are the troubles projects face with CI and Infra

2020-02-03 Thread Michael Shuler
Only have a moment to respond, but Mick hit the higlights with containerization, parallelization, these help solve cleanup, speed, and cascading failures. Dynamic disposable slaves would be icing on that cake, which may require a dedicated master. One more note on jobs, or more correctly

Re: Fwd: [CI] What are the troubles projects face with CI and Infra

2020-02-03 Thread Nate McCall
Mick, this is fantastic! I'll wait another day to see if anyone else chimes in. (Would also love to hear from CassCI folks, anyone else really who has wrestled with this even for internal forks). On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 10:37 AM Mick Semb Wever wrote: > Nate, I leave it to you to forward

Re: Fwd: [CI] What are the troubles projects face with CI and Infra

2020-02-03 Thread Mick Semb Wever
Nate, I leave it to you to forward what-you-chose to the board@'s thread. > Are there still troubles and what are they? TL;DR  the ASF could provide the Cassandra community with an isolated jenkins installation: so that we can manage and control the Jenkins master, as well as ensure all

Fwd: [CI] What are the troubles projects face with CI and Infra

2020-02-02 Thread Nate McCall
Hi folks, The board is looking for feedback on CI infrastructure. I'm happy to take some (constructive) comments back. (Shuler, Mick and David Capwell specifically as folks who've most recently wrestled with this a fair bit). Thanks, -Nate -- Forwarded message - From: Dave Fisher