[boost] Status on Travis

Subject: [boost] Status on Travis
From: Raffi Enficiaud (raffi.enficiaud_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-08-18 08:32:25

Hi dear list,
Hi Rene,

I would like to know more about Travis and its status. From what I 
understand, a lot of efforts have been made recently for making things 
running per commit on Travis and have a quick feedback.

* Naturally the first question is: is the status given by Travis the 
"official" one? so we consider the status given by Travis an official 
source of information, especially wrt. to its competing regression 
dashboard.

* What are the development plans for Travis? Right now I see 3 types of 
builds, and I do not fully understand what they cover (platform, 
compiler) nor their differences.

* For boost.test, I am testing each feature branch before merging to 
develop, by
   1. cloning boost superproject on develop
   2. switching only boost.test to the feature branch

   This is for preventing the breakages on develop that we observed in 
the past since several libraries are depending on boost.test.
   Would it be possible to have that as well on Travis or any continuous 
CI? That would be per library then.
Would it also be possible to have like a template .travis.yml coming 
from the boost.superproject which can partly be overiden by a library? 
(if we want to build things slightly differently)

* The CI I am using is able to parse the junit files generated by the 
test framework, and summarizes the information of each build nicely 
(also tracks the tests history). Is there anything similar in Travis? 
Right now, apart from looking at the full logs (which is hard), is there 
any intermediate information than red/green overall status?

* I can see many project under the boostorg of Travis 
https://travis-ci.org/boostorg/ . How do we do that?

Thanks,
Raffi