Re: Please review 2.5 plan (non-development items)

[Alexander Bokovoy <abokovoy@redhat.com>]

On ti, 23 heinä 2019, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Tuesday, July 23, 2019 4:37 PM +0200 Ondřej Kuzník 
> <ondra@mistotebe.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I've prepared a plan what the project wants to achieve as part of the
> > 2.5 stream apart from core OpenLDAP development that I intend to send to
> > -technical for wider discussion and as a call for participation.
> >
> > It has been suggested to me that people might want to comment/propose
> > changes to it so attaching a draft here. Please let me know what you
> > think or if you agree in broad terms it is fit to be circulated more
> > widely.
>
> Hi Ondrej,
>
> Thanks for writing this up!  In the section about the bug tracker, I 
> would note that the plan is to use Bugzilla for the tracker (as 
> opposed to gitlab issues) via Gitlab's built in bugzilla integration 
> feature.
>
> For contributions, I'd like to see something like 
> <https://about.gitlab.com/2017/11/01/gitlab-switches-to-dco-license/> 
> implemented, so it's simply a part of the contribution process rather 
> than us having to constantly bug people about it.
>
> I agree with Michael that the FAQ should probably just be migrated to 
> using the Gitlab wiki, since we'll already have that available.
>
> On CI/CD, hopefully we can make use of some of the freely available 
> resources, such as <https://build.opensuse.org/>.  What we're 
> particularly missing is Windows as a platform for CI/CD, which would 
> have helped us catch the additional bits necessary for ITS#7585 for 
> example.

Azure Pipelines give free 10 concurrent runners for open source projects
and can connect with GitLab instances for CI/CD. We use it in FreeIPA
in our GitHub pull request review process. The runners are fairly easy to
configure; they run Ubuntu 16.04 but include Docker so it is possible to
do a lot more. FreeIPA runs tests on containerized Fedora 30, for example.

And Azure Pipelines also have Windows and macOS runners:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/hosted?view=azure-devops

If you are interested, I can share my experience on setting it up. I
haven't tried Windows images as I didn't need them but the rest is quite
well working.

--
/ Alexander Bokovoy
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
Security / Identity Management Engineering
Red Hat Limited, Finland