Infrastructure Workgroup?

[Adriana Kobylak]

On 2018-10-30 10:49, Andrew Geissler wrote:
> Based on some recent discussion in this area, I'm contemplating
> forming an Infrastructure workgroup. The focus would be on improving
> our CI infrastructure and the scripts and tools around it.
> 
> There's been a lot of great community effort already around our CI
> build scripts.
> 
> Some thoughts on goals:
> - Documenting the existing flow
> - Alternatives to existing flow (ability to use freely provides clouds
> for open source projects, ...)
> - Managing the Jenkins nodes - Bringing new nodes online quickly
> (chef, puppet, ansible?)
> - Managing and optimizing the CI flow (repository CI, meta CI, openbmc 
> CI)
> -- Which systems do we build?
> - Process for adding hardware CI (mechanism for individuals to add HW
> CI to gerrit commits)
> - Optimizations to existing scripts (docker building, CI, QEMU)
> - Gerrit, Jenkins, and build node periodic update process
> - Overall maintenance and responsibilities for infrastructure
> 
> Thoughts or interest?

+1 . This would become important as the org grows. Also setting 
guidelines
on the minimum tests and platforms that need to pass before a change is
accepted.

> 
> Andrew