Re: Drone. A continuous integration framework?

From: Sam Darwin (samuel.d.darwin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-01-28 20:08:40

Hi Vladimir,
As Vinnie mentioned, Travis has become very slow and/or unusable.  We are
working on this project to offer alternatives, including a self-hosted,
scalable, Drone system.   Here is an example page:
https://drone.cpp.al/boostorg/beast/

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 1:56 PM Vinnie Falco via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 11:27 AM Vladimir Batov via Boost
> <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > I have not heard of Drone and have not seen any discussion wrt
> > integrating it into Boost. Any suggestions, clarifications if the
> > request should be merged? Tnx.
>
> Well, that's up to every author. No one is forcing libraries to use
> the C++ Alliance Drone CI instance. And if you do accept the pull
> request, there is no requirement to stop using your other CI
> integrations. In other words there is only benefit, with no cost
> (except that if you decide you no longer want the integration, you
> have to revert the commit).
>
> The C++ Alliance as part of its mission to contribute to the health of
> C++ through open source, has undertaken a project to build its own
> hosted CI system as an alternative to Travis which is longer usable
> for Boost in a practical sense. The benefit of our solution is we can
> scale up the hardware and make sure it is dedicated only to Boost. It
> doesn't have to be exclusive - we are also working on submitting
> Github Actions integrations for all Boost repositories.
>
> Sam Darwin can answer specific questions, he is in charge of the
> integration.
>
> Thanks
>
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