Re: [cbi-dev] CBI and GitHub

[Christoph Daniel Schulze <cds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

thanks, Fred and Jonah, that helped a lot. :)

Cheers and good health,
Chris

On 01/04/2020 16:59, Frederic Gurr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> See my comments inline.
> 
> On 01.04.20 16:23, Christoph Daniel Schulze wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have two questions regarding the integration of GitHub into the build
>> process.
>>
>> If I understand the CBI documentation [1] correctly, it is already
>> possible to trigger Jenkins builds whenever a branch or pull request is
>> updated on GitHub. Is it also possible to integrate information on
>> whether the build passed onto pull requests?
> Yes, in general, projects use the result of building a pull request as
> validation if a pull request is ready to be merged (e.g. it's one of the
> checks, like the ECA validation). For example:
> https://github.com/eclipse/kuksa.integration/pull/27
> 
>> Are there any Eclipse projects that are already doing something like this?
> Yes. I'd reckon that the majority of the Eclipse projects that have
> their source code on GitHub and use a Jenkins instance do pull request
> validation (e.g. Xtext, Lemminx, Kuksa, Corrosion, and many more).
> 
>> Also, we're currently experimenting with GitHub Actions to perform
>> integration tests on pull requests and branches. Since they are well
>> integrated in GitHub, this should be straightforward. On that occasion,
>> we were wondering to what extend our complete Jenkins build might be
>> migrated over to GitHub actions. In particular, I feel the following
>> areas might be problematic:
>>
>> - Having artifacts signed.
> Only possible from Eclipse CI instances.
>> - Pushing artifacts to the Eclipse download servers.
> Only possible from Eclipse CI instances.
>> - Pushing artifacts to Maven Central.
> It's technically possible, but not recommended, since credentials and
> GPG keys should be stored at the EF.
>> - Pushing websites to the website repository.
> Possible from the outside. Some projects host their website content on
> GitHub and push it to the website repositories.
> 
> 
>> Has any Eclipse project already experimented with this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.eclipse.org/CBI#GitHub_and_Bot_Accounts
>>
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Fred
> 
> 
> 
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