Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] travis: add initial Travis CI script to do builds

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2016-02-05 at 08:48 -0600, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> 
> The goal here is not to replace osstest by any means but to augment it by
> providing some easy to do build tests on every revision and reporting back. It
> should be possible in the future to potentially tie this into osstest to
> allow this to build and if the tree for some reason failed to build not kick
> off a test flight on osstest. Just some thoughts, I know I'm getting a bit
> ahead of myself.

IMHO Free Software projects like Xen Project should be very wary of tying
their infrastructure and workflows to services which are backed by non-free 
software (which I know github is and AFAICT Travis CI also is).

IOW while augmenting things to provide extra/non-critical data about the
state of the world might be ok or at least tolerable, projects should be
wary of inserting these tools into the "critical path" of their workflows.
I think inserting Travis CI before osstest would be just such a mistake.

https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.htmlÂis a good essay on the
subject.

Ian.

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