[cbi-dev] Questions about Python and publishing to another Git repo

[Jim Hughes <jhughes@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I have two things I'm trying to iron out for Eclipse GeoMesa's CI jobs.

First, GeoMesa is mostly a typical Maven with Java 8 build; there is a 
PySpark integration which is hidden behind a profile and building with 
that profile requires Python and installing a few pip packages 
(setuptools and pyspark).  Also, GeoMesa's documentation is built with 
Sphinx.

Is there a recommended way to add the necessary Python packages to a 
build?  (In an internal Jenkins, we have used virtualenv to install the 
packages in an ad hoc manner.  I tried that on the GeoMesa CI, but it 
wasn't available.)

Second, GeoMesa's documentation source is in the main GeoMesa repo and 
the docs are hosted in a separate one hooked up to GitHub pages.  For 
historical reasons, the GitHub pages repo is in a separate GitHub 
organization.

Is there an obvious way to sort out the necessary pieces for that to 
work?  (Admittedly, this is kinda like 
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Jenkins#How_to_build_my_project.27s_website_with_Jenkins.3F 
where Hugo is replaced with Sphinx, things have already moved to github, 
and separate GitHub organizations are in play.)

Thanks in advance for help on either of these topics!

Cheers,

Jim