Jenkins expertise?

[Mark Evenson]

> On Oct 16, 2020, at 20:13, Eric Timmons <etimmons at mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> "Robert Goldman" <rpgoldman at sift.info> writes:
> 
>> In mine, I simply set the environment variables `ASDF_TEST_LISPS` and 
>> the variables that point to the lisp implementations.  Then I call `make 
>> test-all-no-upgrades-no-stop`.
> 
> Just to clarify, it sounds from this that you don't actually care if the
> upgrade tests are run? Do you ever want to run them via CI? As it
> currently stands they're the slowest jobs, so finding some way to reduce
> the number of times they're run would be a win.


Some tests are better than no tests.

The CLF advocates a merge of [!146][] as we then we can adjust runners as
needed for capacity and capability.  The default runners are Linux.  Eric
Timmons is setting up a macOS runner which can be used.  Windows runners are
further in the future.

Among other positive attributes, this establishes a [non-dotfile
artifact][file:ci-gitlab.yml] which runs the CI sequence, so is ammendable to
further pull requests.

For commercial implementations, we are still working out the details that would
be conformant with the licensing conditions.

[!144]: <https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf/-/merge_requests/146>

[file:ci-gitlab.yml]: <https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf/-/blob/5a15171a44310fbf3ded80a93b4b7b6bdccaf04f/gitlab-ci.yml>


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