[ros-users] Software Status Reporting and Custom Builds

Fri Sep 6 13:56:59 UTC 2013

Hi all,

I think it should be possible to customize travis to do build on any ROS package. Travis offers good support for custom scripts for the pre-install, install, pre-build, build and post-build steps. In my opinion the following steps would be necessary to do a generic travis build:

Pre-install:

-          Add ros package repository to sources list

Install:

-          Resolve ros and non-ros dependencies as done in the release pipeline scripts

-          Install or checkout the dependencies

Pre-build:

-          Configure ROS environment (rosbuild or catkin workspace)

Build:

-          Do the build ("make" or catkin_make)

-          Execute tests

Post-build:

-          Generate email notification based on build and test result

I think a lot of the already existing scripts can be reused for that purpose. Other opinions?

  Florian

Von: ros-users-bounces at code.ros.org [mailto:ros-users-bounces at code.ros.org] Im Auftrag von Edwards, Shaun M.
Gesendet: Freitag, 6. September 2013 15:49
An: User discussions
Betreff: Re: [ros-users] Software Status Reporting and Custom Builds

All,

I looked at Travis briefly but it seemed to be set up for stand-alone libraries or those with minimal dependencies.  I assume "installing" ROS was not an option and building ROS packages would be impossible.  Am I missing something?

Shaun Edwards

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From: ros-users-bounces at code.ros.org [mailto:ros-users-bounces at code.ros.org] On Behalf Of Adolfo Rodríguez Tsouroukdissian
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 2:50 AM
To: User discussions
Subject: Re: [ros-users] Software Status Reporting and Custom Builds

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 4:59 AM, Thomas Moulard <thomas.moulard at gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Edwards, Shaun M. <sedwards at swri.org> wrote:
> Looks like the discussion has died down.  I agree with Adolfo's changes and
> will incorporate them.  Unfortunately, I didn't hear an overwhelming
> response that the entire ROS community would find the status reporting
> useful.  I had hoped to incorporate the status symbols into the broader ROS
> wiki, instead of the "Industrial" sub pages.  For now I will leave the
> status descriptions where they are and mark the ROS-Industrial specific
> packages appropriately.  Maybe over time we will see if others choose to use
> them.

Sorry, I am arriving a bit late but so far the easiest way I found to
validate the projects
I maintain is through GitHub+Travis.

By putting a badge in your root README.md file, it becomes easy to see
if the stack
is working fine or not:
https://github.com/laas/vision_visp
(change the branch to fuerte or groovy to see release per release status)

You can have different .travis.yml file on different branches so that
you can check
for all currently maintained ROS versions.

The killer feature compared to the usual buildfarm is that it
annotated automatically
pull requests with the CI status so that you can see if you can merge
the pull request
safely or not.

Great that you bring this up Thomas. Another tool that I've seen you're using is coveralls <https://coveralls.io> , which adds much needed visibility to coverage information (free for open source projects).

	As for the CLA, I am currently using on another project the one from
	the Canonical
	Harmony project:
	http://www.harmonyagreemeI'm junts.org/ <http://www.harmonyagreements.org/> 
	...and I keep the signature on echosign:
	https://www.echosign.adobe.com/en/home.html

	See the CONTRIBUTING.md of this project for instance:
	https://github.com/roboptim/roboptim-core/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

I wasn't familiar with CLAs until this thread. It's good to start raising awareness on these things.

Thanks,

Adolfo.

	Best,
	--
	Thomas Moulard

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