I'm afraid I have been very busy at work, but also the linux box I have been using as my Jenkins platform had a disk failure, taking it out of action.
No data was lost, but my employer has been supplying this, and I have to wait in the queue, after business requirements, for the IT folks to get me a new server configured for this purpose.
This has unavoidably hindered my work on ASDF.
I'm open to suggestions about alternative resources for running these tests, but there are special challenges because I need to be able to put commercial software (Allegro CL and LispWorks) on any test server, which I think rules out using Travis.
If anyone has hosting suggestions, please let me know: otherwise I'm afraid we'll be limping along till September, which is unfortunate, since we have a bunch of fixes and bug reports, and I would very much like to be able to get these wrapped up into a bug fix release.
I hope you all are staying safe and healthy!
On Sat, 2020-08-01 at 15:00 -0500, Robert Goldman wrote:
I'm afraid I have been very busy at work, but also the linux box I have been using as my Jenkins platform had a disk failure, taking it out of action.
No data was lost, but my employer has been supplying this, and I have to wait in the queue, after business requirements, for the IT folks to get me a new server configured for this purpose.
This has unavoidably hindered my work on ASDF.
I'm open to suggestions about alternative resources for running these tests, but there are special challenges because I need to be able to put commercial software (Allegro CL and LispWorks) on any test server, which I think rules out using Travis.
What are the challenges ? Allegro works well on Travis, and the limitations of Lispworks Personal are well known.
On 1 Aug 2020, at 15:16, Stelian Ionescu wrote:
I'm open to suggestions about alternative resources for running
these tests, but there are special challenges because I need to be able to put commercial software (Allegro CL and LispWorks) on any test server, which I think rules out using Travis.
What are the challenges ? Allegro works well on Travis, and the limitations of Lispworks Personal are well known.
I run the tests using professional licenses that LispWorks and Franz kindly provide me in order to ensure that ASDF continues to work on their platforms.
So I would need to be able to do something like deploy a non-open Docker image to do this testing...
On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 03:00:31PM -0500, Robert Goldman wrote:
Hi!
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I think there is no needs to apologize, i believe everyone appreciate your works as ASDF maintainer and all efforts you put on this project.
Bye! C.
Yep. Let me second that.
All the best
Marco
On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 12:01 PM cage cage-dev@twistfold.it wrote:
On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 03:00:31PM -0500, Robert Goldman wrote:
Hi!
[...]
I think there is no needs to apologize, i believe everyone appreciate your works as ASDF maintainer and all efforts you put on this project.
Bye! C.
Very much so, yes!
-a
On Sun, 2 Aug 2020, Marco Antoniotti wrote:
Yep. Let me second that.
All the best
Marco
On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 12:01 PM cage cage-dev@twistfold.it wrote:
On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 03:00:31PM -0500, Robert Goldman wrote:
Hi!
[...]
I think there is no needs to apologize, i believe everyone appreciate your works as ASDF maintainer and all efforts you put on this project.
Bye! C.
On Aug 1, 2020, at 22:00, Robert Goldman rpgoldman@gmail.com wrote:
I'm afraid I have been very busy at work, but also the linux box I have been using as my Jenkins platform had a disk failure, taking it out of action.
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If anyone has hosting suggestions, please let me know: otherwise I'm afraid we'll be limping along till September, which is unfortunate, since we have a bunch of fixes and bug reports, and I would very much like to be able to get these wrapped up into a bug fix release.
I hope you all are staying safe and healthy!
We would potentially be interested in hosting the ASDF CI on common-lisp.net with gitlab CI. We would have to work out the kinks with using commercial CL implementations including reaching out to Allegro and LispWorks for proper licensing. Providing CI containers for tuned for ANSI CL implementations has long been on our desired features, so this would line up well with where we want to push the services offered by common-lisp.net.
It would take an unknown amount of work to provide this service to ASDF provided by an unspecified number of volunteers, but given the importance of ASDF to everyone, I believe we could attract a decent amount of help. If there is a decent alternative with Travis or some other service, and just getting things running again rather than being a guinea pig for new services is your priority, then please pursue that path.
We have a CLF board meeting this Wednesday at 1900 UTC where I could advance such an idea, and we could coordinate on reaching out to the commercial vendors for (hopefully free) licensing term details.
CLF board meeting attendence is more or less open to those who wish to attend via GOOG meet. Either drop me a mail, or stop by #common-lisp.net to get the connection details.
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