CFT: CI for GitHub on FreeBSD

[Alan Somers]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 27 May 2017 at 13:14, Alan Somers <asomers at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> I found it mildly frustrating that there was no hosted CI service for
>> FreeBSD that worked with GitHub projects, so I made my own.  You can
>> see it in action here:
>>
>>    https://github.com/asomers/mio-aio/pull/6
>> * https://162.213.36.222/buildbot/#/builders/2/builds/28
>
> I had a brief look at this while it was up and it looks very slick. I
> agree that a hosted CI that integrates trivially with GitHub would
> provide a lot of value to FreeBSD.
>
>> The service is pretty much ready for beta testing at this point, as
>> soon as I get a static IP and a DNS entry.  What I need are a few
>> small projects to test it out.
>
> I've been trying to help with the FreeBSD nvml port and would like to
> nominate it as a test case -- https://github.com/pmem/nvml
>
>> What I'd like to have would be a more
>> up-to-date Docker port.  Any takers?
>
> Guangyuan (Charlie) Yang, one of my summer co-op students, has been
> taking a look at Docker on FreeBSD; he and/or I will at least continue
> the investigation and see what we can do.

Cool!  I had actually looked at using pmem at one point, though I
eventually decided against it.  Are the build and test instructions
the same for FreeBSD as for Linux?

-Alan