[OpenWrt-Devel] [PROPOSAL] move OpenWrt codebase to Git and GitHub

[Roman Yeryomin]

On 24 May 2016 at 18:51, Eric Schultz <eschultz at prplfoundation.org> wrote:
> I think this is a great idea! I very much support a move to Github; despite
> it's issues, it's just where development is happening today. Keeping a
> non-Github channel for submitting patches is also a great idea I think.
>
> My free-software side worries about using something non-free like drone.io
> for CI but this is a huge task certainly and I'm not sure a free tool would
> meet everyone's needs (plus there's the huge added burden of maintenance).

How about something like kernelci.org?
I'm not sure how to run all this https://github.com/kernelci but the
result looks very interesting.

> Eric
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Luka Perkov <luka at openwrt.org> wrote:
>>
>> Dear OpenWrt mailing list readers,
>>
>> as the subject says I'd like to make proposal to move the OpenWrt
>> codebase to Git. This was already discussed before [1] and now when
>> there are no blockers [2] for this change I'd like that we as a
>> community move forward with this switch.
>>
>> Also, I'd like to propose that we move the project to GitHub and here
>> are the reasons why I see this as a good decision:
>>
>> * GitHub will allow people to contribute more easily
>>
>> The bigger amount of contributions has already happened and can be seen
>> on the packages feed which is already hosted on GitHub. With this I'm
>> also hoping to avoid comments regarding invalid patches on the mailing
>> list.
>>
>> For now I am proposing that the current development workflow is also
>> accepted - aka. patches that are sent to the mailing list are also
>> accepted.
>>
>> * GitHub and similar services will allow us to integrate more easily
>> with other projects
>>
>> Here specifically I mean integration with modern CI. Here is an example
>> of integration with drone.io [3][4]. At the moment this is only in the
>> POC stage but what I'd like to do down the line is to:
>>
>>  - build OpenWrt images for all architectures for every pull request
>>
>>  - build OpenWrt package binary for every package pull request for all
>> architectures and make it available for download
>>
>>  - build and host OpenWrt qemu and/or Docker image for every pull request
>>
>> This will allow easy review of the work since flags will be shown in the
>> pull request if the build was sucessful or not. Also, this will allow
>> people to test changes without building the image and thus lowering the
>> time that needs to be spent on maintenance work.
>>
>> If this proposal gets accepted I'll be sending out an email to get
>> access to more build servers so this new build infrastructure can
>> properly support the project in a timely fashion.
>>
>> Please share your thoughts regarding this proposal.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Luka
>>
>> [1]
>> https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2015-October/036390.html
>> [2] https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2016-May/041329.html
>> [3] https://github.com/makkrnic/openwrt-qemu-x86
>> [4] http://sartura-drone.makkrnic.com/makkrnic/openwrt-qemu-x86/5
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