[Development] Becoming a Tier 1 platform and the CI System

[Sean Harmer]

Hi list,

We have been working hard to improve Qt support on the QNX platform. At this 
stage we have good support for widgets and QtQuick 1 & 2, and sensors.

The next stage is to promote QNX to a Tier 1 platform so that users understand 
that QNX is a fully supported platform for Qt.

To do so we of course need to integrate QNX into the CI system so that we can 
catch regressions just like the other Tier 1 platforms. This mail is intended 
to kick off a discussion about the practicalities of elevating a platform to 
Tier 1 status as I think this is the first time this has been requested since 
the uptake of Open Governance.

As a concrete issue, how would we go about integrating QNX into the CI system? 
Initially as a build node but eventually to also run all applicable unit 
tests.

At present we have a small Jenkins installation but this of course only 
catches build failures after offending commits have been merged.

What other gates do we also have to pass to promote QNX to Tier 1?

Many thanks in advance,

Sean
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