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Date:      Tue, 21 Feb 2017 22:54:08 -0800
From:      Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@bluezbox.com>
To:        Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: TravisCI vs BuildBot vs Bamboo vs Jenkins
Message-ID:  <20170222065408.GA19302@bluezbox.com>
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Alan Somers (asomers@freebsd.org) wrote:
> All of the cool kids are hosting their projects on Github and using
> TravisCI for continuous testing.  The integration is fairly slick.
> But TravisCI only supports OSX and Linux.  Every time a user opens a
> feature request for FreeBSD support
> (https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/1818,
> https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/5473,
> https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/6671), it gets closed by
> a Travis employee who thinks that FreeBSD is a Linux distro.
> 
> One overachiever managed to trick Travis into running FreeBSD by using
> QEMU to fire up a VM as an unprivileged user process and run his tests
> inside of that.
> https://erouault.blogspot.com/2016/09/running-freebsd-in-travis-ci.html
> 
> And a few projects are even doing this very thing, though it seems
> like a bit abusive to me.
> https://travis-ci.org/rust-lang/libc/jobs/203950308
> 
> 
> So my question is, what's the best alternative?
> 
> BuildBot can run on pretty much anything, and supposedly it can hook
> into all of the popular code hosting platforms.
> https://docs.buildbot.net/latest/manual/cfg-wwwhooks.html
> 
> Bamboo is also very portable, and has a slick GUI to connect to
> Bitbucket.  Unfortunately, it's closed-source, but free licenses are
> available for open-source developers.  Unfortunately, it's written in
> Java.
> https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/02/totw-connecting-bamboo-and-bitbucket-cloud/
> 
> Jenkins is free and portable and has some level of Github and
> Bitbucket integration.  Unfortunately it's also written in Java.
> https://jenkins.io/solutions/github/
> 
> 
> Does anybody have experience with any of these solutions?  Are there
> alternatives I've overlooked?

FreeBSD's CI is built using Jenkins: https://ci.freebsd.org also
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Jenkins so it must be working fine with
FreeBSD.

I've been using Jenkins for number of years (not in *BSD world though)
and I kind of like it despite somewhat trashy UI. My main complaint is
that you can't have CI pipeline description/settings in file in version
control (like in GitLab for instance) and have to set it up manually
via web UI or API. Other than that it's fairly good system. 

-- 
gonzo



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