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XACC - eXtreme-scale Accelerator programming framework
https://xacc.readthedocs.io
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Port XACC (Build + Test) CI to GitHub Actions #506

Closed 1tnguyen closed 2 years ago

1tnguyen commented 2 years ago

This will remove dependency on the external GitLab runner. Sometimes, the pipeline may fail sporadically, e.g., due to downloading Boost (https://code.ornl.gov/qci/xacc/-/jobs/1075894). Having CI in GitHub allows XACC committers to control the pipeline (e.g., rerun)

GitHub Actions is free for open-source repositories and we can run both Linux and Mac build. My testing shows that it takes ~20 mins to build and test XACC (Linux and Mac pipelines can run simultaneously)

1tnguyen commented 2 years ago

@amccaskey what do you think?

amccaskey commented 2 years ago

I think this is a great idea. I've looked into it before, but I always thought the free VMs would be too slow (at least, much slower than the CADES VMs we had).

At this point, I don't think we have much choice. It is important to move away from the existing Gitlab CI/CD. This is probably the easiest next step, and we can update to better VMs later if possible.