Hi Sanne, On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Sanne Grinovero <sa...@hibernate.org> wrote:
> I am a bit skeptical as we have CI working already on ci.hibernate.org > and having limited people we can't really afford to fix things which > already work. > I perfectly understand that. I wanted to experiment it without bothering you about it. > To summarize what I like of Travis: > - simple configuration > - not much maintenance from our side > - your recommendation counts > - they pay the bills? > - you say that it's very popular among Java developers. > > About the popularity point, you surprised me. I honestly thought that > we should stay on Jenkins because that was the most popular one. Do > you have some data to back that nowadays people are more familiar with > Travis? > It's very widespread in the Open Source projects running on GitHub, either in Java, Ruby, PHP, Python and so on. HikariCP for instance uses Travis and there are a lot of others projects using it: https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP . We use Jenkins at my company too for our private projects but we use Travis for our Open Source ones. > Finally I have been burned several times by not having "root access" > on the whole thing. I guess Docker might make this reasoning moot now, > but it's something to consider. > It's also quite important that we make sure our releases are created > in a reliable environment, so there's the trust issue of delegating > the keys to the kingdom to a third party. I'd even like it we could > start "signing" the artifacts we release as some users mentioned that > this would be important for them. > Yes, Travis won't replace the release tasks. I think it's good for the day to day builds and PR builds and we should only use it for that - if we decide to use it. > Sorry to be skeptical, I didn't mean to stress the negative aspects > but to clarify that there are many aspects to consider for such a > move. > I'm definitely open to consider using it for a subset of jobs, like > you mentioned the PR review system might be a good fit. > It's also a good thing for sure to test in additional environments: > can it also run jobs on Windows and OSX ? We're missing that.. we > could fix the lack of Windows via AWS but that has a steep price tag.. > I'll rather volunteer an old laptop from home. > They have OSX support but it's sparse. It's mostly here to test MacOS and iOS apps. They don't have Windows support. -- Guillaume _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
