[swift-dev] Extending Swift's continuous integration

[Brian Gesiak]

Oops, forgot to actually CC people. My bad!

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Brian Gesiak <modocache at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> (+cc Ted Kremenek, John Holdsworth, Philippe Hausler)
>
> Following up on https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/
> pull/622#issuecomment-247630142, I'd like to discuss expanding the range
> of platforms that are tested by @swift-ci.
>
> Currently, @swift-ci is capable of "test macOS platform" and "test Linux
> platform", among others. It would be awesome if we could ask it to "test
> Android platform", "test Linux ARM platform", and so on.
>
> In https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/
> pull/622#issuecomment-247415912, Ted Kremenek states that the idea is to
> add another Jenkins master that could be used to add additional machines
> for different platforms, to enable more CI testing on additional platforms
> the community cares about, including Android.
>
> I was wondering if there's anything I could do to help here. I have
> desktops capable of building Swift for Android, Android devices to run the
> tests on, and developer time to help get this set up. Would those resources
> help?
>
> If the "another Jenkins master" is something that'll happen far off into
> the future, I was considering creating a @swift-android-ci GitHub user that
> would, like the @swift-ci bot, respond to "@swift-android-ci please test".
>
> Since Android isn't tested on Swift CI, I've been fixing build breakages
> after they land in master, sometimes a few days after they're merged.
> Additional CI would greatly improve the stability of the Android build --
> I'm looking forward to next steps here! :)
>
> - Brian Gesiak
>
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