Re: let's move koji to github

[Michael McLean]

As an old school open source devotee, I balk at moving from an foss
solution to a proprietary one.

On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 9:11 AM Alex Iribarren <alex.m.lists3(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:

>  Hi all,
>
>  I like this idea, I often miss Github's code search feature when working
>  with repos on Pagure.
>
>  Cheers,
>  Alex
>
>  On 8/25/21 8:30 PM, Ken Dreyer wrote:
>  > This ticket got me thinking about integration testing recently:
>  > https://pagure.io/koji/issue/2990
>  >
>  > There were only two ways to catch that bug:
>  >
>  > A) A human notices that the CLI uses new APIs without handling
>  > GenericError/ParameterError
>  >
>  > B) An automated test reports a failure
>  >
>  > It's great if we can catch everything during a review, but deep
>  > integration testing scales better. We also want to make it easier for
>  > new contributors to add features, and automated tests would guide
>  > those type of code changes more easily.
>  >
>  > I've run Koji instances inside Travis CI and GitHub Actions for years
>  > for the koji-ansible project. It's so critical to do live testing
>  > against a real (throwaway) Koji instance. For example, this caught a
>  > small API change recently:
>  > https://github.com/ktdreyer/koji-ansible/issues/224
>  >
>  > On distributed systems like Koji, it's important to bring up big
>  > environments with many different permutations, test upgrades, etc.
>  >
>  > I understand there is some CI for Koji with CentOS Jenkins right now,
>  > but that infra does not get a lot of maintenance, and there are some
>  > hard-to-debug failures.
>  >
>  > Here are the reasons I suggest moving to GitHub instead:
>  >
>  > GitHub is very fast
>  > Many people have accounts already, so it's trivial for new contributors
>  > It's very easy to run CI resources on pull requests
>  >
>  > - Ken
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