Hi all,
As discussed during the Paris sprint and more recently in a Kdenlive
café with Nicolas, I'd like to help setting up a relevant CI for Kdenlive.
There is already a general KDE CI that builds the code for various
platforms [1], but I have yet to understand how it works, mostly from an
organizational point of view. Nicolas mentioned that the main point of
Contact is Ben Cooksley, but I have not contacted him yet. One thing to
be noted, is that this CI could be already useful, for instance, as it
shows that requiring MLT 6.10 broke the build. [2]
In parallel, I have set up an experimental CI on Gitlab.com, because it
seemed to me that it could have a few advantages, especially in terms
of flexibility.
What I have done so far is just to mirror the code and write a simple
.gitlab-ci.yml file on the refactoring_timeline branch: it builds the
code, runs cppcheck in the "build" stage then runs "build/runTests
-platform offscreen" in the test stage.
The results of cppcheck are available in the artifacts of the build
stage [3] and the result of runTests are in the logs of the test stage
[4]. Please note that the test stage fails not because of the results of
the tests, but because runTests segfaults (purposely, if I recall
correctly). One detail : it should be easy to get email notifications
on the results (I get them as owner of the repo, but I guess anyone
could subscribe).
So, in short term, I see two (non exclusive) possible actions :
- Contact KDE infrastructure team to have an instance that suits you ;
that means : the OS of your choice, the right branch to be tested
(refactoring_timeline I guess ) and automatically running runTests
- Clean/adapt the .gitlab-ci.yml file, add it to the code repo and
automatically mirror the repo on an official kdenlive acccount on a
gitlab instance (it doesn't have to be gitlab.com).
What do you think about it?
Cheers,
Camille
[1] https://build.kde.org/job/Applications%20kdenlive%20kf5-qt5%20SUSEQt5.9/
[2]
https://build.kde.org/job/Applications%20kdenlive%20kf5-qt5%20SUSEQt5.9/34/
[3]
https://gitlab.com/camillem/kdenlive-mirror/-/jobs/81024447/artifacts/download
[4] https://gitlab.com/camillem/kdenlive-mirror/-/jobs/81024448
