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

[Rohan McGovern]

Molkentin Daniel (Nokia-MP/Berlin) said:
> 
> > It means that the current CI infrastructure is operated by Nokia and
> > can't have build nodes plugged in from outside of Nokia premises.  So,
> > if you need to manage your own build nodes, there is currently no way to
> > integrate with the Qt Project CI system.  Fixing this is a significant
> > project which I am not aware of anyone currently working on :(
> 
> 
> How likely/far away is it that we can switch from Pulse to Jenkins for CI? Because in that case, we could federate CI builds.
> 

Nobody is working on it, so at the current rate of work, it is
infinitely far away :)

> Given that the actual logic should be shell/perl/python scripts, this should be doable, right?
> 

The scripts which have the logic for testing are not at all Pulse
specific and can already be used successfully in Jenkins, or any other
decent CI tool.

The glue between gerrit and Pulse would have to be rewritten to support
Jenkins, but this is small (and that code is long overdue a complete
rewrite).

I don't think it matters much which one of these tools is used at that
layer, they're all pretty similar.