FreeTDS Development Group

[Marc Abramowitz <msabramo AT gmail.com>]

On Oct 9, 2013, at 4:39 PM, "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 08:56:27 -0700
> Marc Abramowitz <msabramo AT gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Any interest in setting up Travis CI to run the FreeTDS test suite
>> automatically on every commit to git?
> 
> What do you need from us, Marc?  

I think the main thing is we have to rig up the FreeTDS unit tests so that 
they can get the server credentials from environment variables rather than 
the PWD file. This is so we can use built-in encryption features of Travis CI 
to keep the credentials secret so they are not abused. 

I have a PR on Gitorious that modifies one of the dblib test suite to use 
such environment variables. What I didn't realize until later is that there 
are several unittest directories and each one duplicates logic for reading 
PWD (and they are very similar but not always identical). So this PR is not 
really going to work for all of the tests and it would be somewhat invasive 
to modify all the test suites. So I've been thinking of abandoning that idea 
and instead writing a small script that reads the environment variables and 
writes a PWD file. This is easy and non-invasive. If you guys want to 
refactor the PWD reading logic, that's cool too - I just wasn't going to try 
that because I figured there was a high chance of me screwing something up. 

If you agree with my approach, I can send a PR for it. And in the same PR or 
a different one, I would add a .travis.yml file, which is essentially a 
YAMLized Makefile that tells Travis how to build and run the tests. It also 
has encrypted environment variables in it with the server credentials. 

Then you or I would set up a GitHub mirror of Gitorious. 

And then the owner of the GitHub mirror has to do a 1 minute song and dance 
where they sign into Travis CI with GitHub credentials and flip a switch so 
that Travis gets notified of new commits to the GitHub repo. 

> 
> If all you need is permissions, and you're prepared to set it up and
> take care of it, I don't see a problem.  It would be good to add a link
> to the website, too.  (The HTML is in the repository.)
> 
> --jkl
> 
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