Hi folks I'm a big fan of CI (automated testing), and maybe you are too. I'd love to have CI for reviewing patches of Guile.
So, I decided to set it up! This isn't something that's available on GNU Savannah, so I've used GitLab (which is still FSF-approved Free Software). You can see my different branches being tested here: https://gitlab.com/wilfred/guile/pipelines?scope=branches Guile compilation is slow: 3 hours 15 minutes on my feeble laptop. GitLab's CI only gives you an hour. I solved this by creating a Docker image: https://gitlab.com/wilfred/guile-build-image that contains a recent checkout of Guile that has been built. This allows me to do an incremental build in GitLab, which is much faster (5-10 minutes, including tests). What do you think? I'd love this to become the standard way to contribute: it's easy to see what patches are in need of review, and whether tests pass after a given patch is applied. In any case, I'm finding it very helpful, maybe you will find so too. Cheers Wilfred
