[GSOC]About the microproject related to CI

[GSOC]About the microproject related to CI

[Zhibin Li]

Hi all,

I'm Zhibin Li, an undergraduate from China and I'm interested in 
automated testing. Since the application deadline is coming, hope it's 
not too late for me to start with the microproject. If it's ok, I would 
like to take Git CI Improvements 4 as my starting point. But the 
description on the website shows less details so I wonder what am I 
supposed to do more specifically? Reporting the results or trying to 
figure out the how and why those results come out independently? It 
would be nice if you guys can tell me about any details.

Thanks,
Zhibin

Re: [GSOC]About the microproject related to CI

[Christian Couder]

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 2:44 AM, Zhibin Li <08826794brmt@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm Zhibin Li, an undergraduate from China and I'm interested in automated
> testing. Since the application deadline is coming, hope it's not too late
> for me to start with the microproject.

As the Student Application Period ends on March 27, I think there are
very few chances that your microproject and your proposal will get
advanced enough at the end of the period for you to be selected. You
can still try if you really want though.

> If it's ok, I would like to take Git
> CI Improvements 4 as my starting point. But the description on the website
> shows less details so I wonder what am I supposed to do more specifically?

It looks like the CI improvements 4 is:

install CVS on the build machines to run t94?? and t96?? tests
install SVN on the build machines to run t91?? tests
install Apache Web Server to run 5539, 5550, and 5561

So it seems to me that you should create a patch that changes:

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/.travis.yml

so that the testing machines will have some software installed that is
required to run some tests.

See:

e7e9f5e7a1 (travis-ci: enable Git SVN tests t91xx on Linux, 2016-05-19), and

https://public-inbox.org/git/20180305200400.3769-1-sidm1999@gmail.com/

for example.

> Reporting the results or trying to figure out the how and why those results
> come out independently? It would be nice if you guys can tell me about any
> details.

No this is not about the results of the tests.