Nightly CI

[kelson42]

We had a rough CI implemented in on of our introduction PR but now we have nothing.

[kelson42]

@BPerlakiH I know this was not the priority but having seen the code in one of the PR, I have been surprised that we have nothing in main branch. I had even prepare https://dev.kiwix.org/apple/custom/test/wikipedia_en_ray_charles_maxi_2023-12.zim to use for a CI doing a simple compilation test. Do I have got this wrong? Can we reintroduce it?

[BPerlakiH]

@kelson42 I think we can put this together from the existing / working parts. My feeling is that it would be essential to summarise what we want to check in this integration process. The way I see it, is that we have python code in this repository and some tests to them, so it would be nice to run those python tests as part of this process. In terms of the apps itself, we have a couple of options either:

• we try to detect which folders (new folders) are changed and try to build those brands,
• or build all the brands.

In both cases, I think we do not want to upload them anywhere. This way we can secure that the change introduced is OK.

What do you think ?

[rgaudin]

I agree:

• run python tests
• build what changed (no upload).

Regarding detection, we had it there.

It's a detail but I prefer having a dedicated workflow for each App/brand. This way, we get a properly named, dedicated action per brand and easily see what triggered and identify if it failed. Only drawback is it requires duplicating a workflow file when we add a new brand.

This can be considered an optimization and is less important so do as you prefer for now ; what's important is building in the CI

[kelson42]

@BPerlakiH @rgaudin You are already far further as what I forsee.

To start, triggered like on other repos, a CI dedicated worflow which just:

• compiles a fake app
• run any dedicated test already made in this repo.

BTW, at this stage, I'm not in favour, of having app dedicated workflows. We might open an other ticket asking and discussing how we could do a smarter CI: compile modified app code, verify that all the prerequisites are OK, ...

[kelson42]

After discussion, this check to verify that this repo continues to compile fine against kiwix/apple might better run jun once per night with the data of a test/fake app.

[BPerlakiH]

Re-opening: We still need the part to run the python tests.