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Continuous Integration

Links:
FreeBSD Jenkins Instance URL: https://ci.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Hardware Testing Lab URL: https://ci.FreeBSD.org/hwlab
FreeBSD CI artifact archive URL: https://artifact.ci.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD CI weekly report URL: https://hackmd.io/@FreeBSD-CI
FreeBSD Jenkins wiki URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Jenkins
Hosted CI wiki URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/HostedCI
3rd Party Software CI URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/3rdPartySoftwareCI
Tickets related to freebsd-testing@ URL: https://preview.tinyurl.com/y9maauwg
FreeBSD CI Repository URL: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ci

Contact: Jenkins Admin <jenkins-admin@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: freebsd-testing Mailing List
Contact: IRC #freebsd-ci channel on EFNet

The FreeBSD CI team maintains the continuous integration system of the FreeBSD project. The CI system firstly checks the committed changes can be successfully built, then performs various tests and analysis over the newly built results. The artifacts from those builds are archived in the artifact server for further testing and debugging needs. The CI team members examine the failing builds and unstable tests and work with the experts in that area to fix the code or adjust test infrastructure. The details of these efforts are available in the weekly CI reports.

During the first quarter of 2021, we continued working with the contributors and developers in the project to fulfil their testing needs and also keep collaborating with external projects and companies to improve their products and FreeBSD.

Important changes:

  • All src jobs were changed to use git to follow VCS migration. Thanks Brandon Bergren (bdragon@) again.

  • Doc job was updated for following the AsciiDoc migration.

New jobs added:

Work in progress and open tasks:

  • Designing and implementing pre-commit CI building and testing

  • Designing and implementing use of CI cluster to build release artifacts as release engineering does

  • Collecting and sorting CI tasks and ideas here

  • Testing and merging pull requests in the FreeBSD-ci repo

  • Reducing the procedures of CI/test environment setting up for contributors and developers

  • Setting up the CI stage environment and putting the experimental jobs on it

  • Setting up public network access for the VM guest running tests

  • Implementing automatic tests on bare metal hardware

  • Adding drm ports building tests against -CURRENT

  • Planning to run ztest and network stack tests

  • Adding more external toolchain related jobs

  • Improving the hardware lab to be more mature and adding more hardware

  • Helping more software get FreeBSD support in their CI pipeline Wiki pages: 3rdPartySoftwareCI, HostedCI

  • Working with hosted CI providers to have better FreeBSD support

  • The build and test results will be sent to the dev-ci mailing list soon. Feedback and help with analysis is very appreciated!

Please see freebsd-testing@ related tickets for more WIP information, and don’t hesitate to join the effort!

Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation

Last modified on: May 1, 2021 by Daniel Ebdrup Jensen