Modernizing Testbot Initiative meeting July 21st

DrupalCI Meetings are now on a 2 week schedule.

In last nights DrupalCI meeting we covered a variety of topics:

• Contrib Testing - jthorson, mixologic, drumm
  • Contrib testing for Drupal8 is very nearly ready for deployment.
  • jthorson, with some help from mixologic, made some changes to the build parameters and the artifacts generation to support contrib.
  • Our jenkins jobs are being updated to support the new paramters
  • https://www.drupal.org/node/2535946
  • https://www.drupal.org/node/2535786
  • There are some longer term todos:
    • Drupal Core repo is currently hard coded, that should be changed/more easily changeable
    • Contrib's handling of semantic versioning needs to be sorted out before 8.1: https://www.drupal.org/node/1612910
• Performance Improvements - isntall
  • Jenkins dispatcher moving to freebsd for on the fly compression
  • Filesystem changes to fix a performance regression and hopefully improve the speed of test runs (aufs -> devicemapper)
  • Bots need good clean up
• Simplifying with Docker Compose - isntall
  • There are some wins and simplifications to be made based on this example: https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-gitlab/blob/master/docker-compose.yml
  • https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-gitlab/blob/master/Dockerfile
  • https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-gitlab/blob/master/entrypoint.sh
• Updates to the test pages - drumm
  • Test summary pages now show the branch test that is related to the patch test.
• Postgres Stability - isntall
  • Our postgres bots are about as stable as we can make them - if core devs have any more stable/successful results locally we need them to share their config - https://www.drupal.org/node/2535786
• PHP 7 bots - isntall
  • Ready to be added to the testing matrix
• PHP 5.3 bots to support d7 testing - isntall
  • isntall needs some additional support getting the 5.3 environments working - in particular because there are some steps to support d7 testing that are distinct from d8 (such as drupal site install)