Improving the Continuous Integration (CI) infrastructure to ensure more reliable and efficient software development and testing processes.
Contact: Li-Wen Hsu: <lwhsu@FreeBSD.org>
In the first quarter of 2024, we worked with the project contributors and developers to address their testing requirements. Concurrently, we collaborated with external projects and companies to enhance their products by testing more on FreeBSD.
In Q1 2024, the FreeBSD project enhanced its continuous integration (CI) infrastructure. The team, led by Christos Margiolis, collaborated with contributors and external projects to meet testing needs and improve product testing on FreeBSD.
Key achievements include upgrading disk and memory for test VMs using parts from decommissioned machines, updating the build environment for stable/13 jobs to 13.3-RELEASE, and transitioning the i386 build on the main branch to use cross-build on amd64.
Ongoing efforts involve merging critical reviews, adding new hardware to the CI cluster, and designing a pre-commit CI system and pull/merge-request system. The team is also working on utilizing the CI cluster for building release artifacts, simplifying CI/test environment setup, and redesigning the hardware test lab.
Future plans include collecting CI tasks and ideas, setting up public network access for VM guest tests, implementing bare-metal hardware test suites, adding DRM ports building tests against -CURRENT, and running ztest tests. The team aims to improve FreeBSD support in CI pipelines and collaborate with hosted CI providers.
More Information: Continuous Integration (GitHub)