[Patchew-devel] [RFC] Replacing tester with gitlab CI

[Fam Zheng]

On Thu, 2020-10-01 at 14:16 +0100, Fam Zheng wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-10-01 at 13:27 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 01/10/20 13:02, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > > Here is an idea about how we can drop some code and simplify
> > > things.
> > > 
> > > Back when patchew tester was initially designed, there wasn't
> > > something
> > > as flexible as needed. Today, gitlab-ci has everything we want,
> > > so
> > > if
> > > the applier pushes tags to a gitlab repo, all the testing stuff
> > > can
> > > happen there.
> > 
> > Except one thing that we could keep on Patchew testers: gitlab-ci
> > doesn't have KVM (though we could use Travis or custom runners)
> > which
> > QEMU needs in order to test FreeBSD.  But yeah I totally agree that
> > Gitlab or GitHub is a much better alternative to our custom
> > testers.

Another thing I failed to mention: patchew-tester is standard python3,
whereas gitlab-runner doesn't support as many platforms, apparently.

Fam