On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 10:40:39AM +0100, Anthony Roberts wrote:
> Which of these are you looking for us to provide:
>
> * A machine for you to directly access (via a VPN)
> * A machine we just run a worker script on that automatically picks up the
> builds as required
> * Us to do downstream CI
>
> All are possible, but preferably not option 1, as it would mean straight up
> pulling out a machine from our build farm, and it has to go through all
> sorts of approvals internally. If it's the only way forward I can kick it up
> the chain though.
>
> Option 2 and 3 are ones we do for various other projects (ie. 2 - CMake, 3 -
> OpenSSL)
The community has its own CI facility. Here is a link of how to set
up a machine:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_Buildfarm_Howto
And all the results are published by the maintainers of the machines
on a periodic basis where the buildfarm client code is set:
https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_status.pl
The final result would be for you to maintain the machine so as we are
able to see if anything breaks with it. Adding extra dependencies to
the build like OpenSSL would be nice, but based on the contents of the
patch to add this port that does not seem mandatory to me, either.
Once the machine is ready, you will need to request a buildfarm
machine name and a key to be able to begin publishing the reports of
the builds to the community buildfarm. Once the machine is ready to
go, just let me know and I'd be OK to merge the patch (I still want to
do a final review of it in case I've missed something, but I can move
on with that before the buildfarm machine is set up).
--
Michael
