Re: Status of the test framework project

[Greg Williamson]

Having it post an image / comment is easy enough. I already do this on
some of my github projects. However, as I mentioned savannah is
missing tools to do things like this. I will try to make a PR once you
have migrated to gitlab or elsewhere but until then I'd rather not
waste the effort until you've committed to a more modern git
interface.

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 1:51 AM Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hello Greg,
>
>
> thanks for chiming in!
>
> > Running continuous integration on Savannah isn't really an option.
>
> Yes.
>
> > If the project moves to gitlab as was discussed months ago.  I would
> > not be opposed to porting my azure configs to gitlab ones.
>
> Hopefully, this is done soon.  Anurag?
>
> > However it is not really practical for me to set up servers for your
> > organization.  The scripts I wrote should run on any Linux machine
> > though.
>
> OK.
>
> > "Improving the UI" is really vague so it would be helpful to me or
> > your future student if you're clearer about what you want upfront.
>
> For comparison, have a look at LilyPond: If a merge requests gets
> submitted, its test suite is run, and the differences to a base line
> are automatically provided in quite a nice way (including the
> possibility for blink comparison).
>
> Here is an example MR:
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>   https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/589
>
> and here the artifacts of a successfully executed pipeline job for
> online viewing:
>
>   
> https://lilypond.gitlab.io/-/lilypond/-/jobs/944871436/artifacts/test-results/index.html
>
> Normally this link would expire tomorrow and the artifacts removed;
> I've pressed the 'Keep' button right now so that they stay as an
> example.
>
> It is also possible to download the artifacts as a bundle:
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>   https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/589/pipelines
>
> > I don't know much about bcmp or whatever but switching out the
> > comparison tool used in the scripts shouldn't be difficult.
>
> Yep.
>
> To summarize: It would be great if your scripts can be adapted and
> integrated to the FreeDeskTop instance of gitlab as soon as the
> repository together with the issues database has moved.
>
>
>     Werner