[DEPR]: testeng-ci

[kdmccormick]

Proposal Date

2024-05-14

Target Ticket Acceptance Date

2024-05-28

Earliest Open edX Named Release Without This Functionality

Redwood

Rationale

This is a tiny repo with a couple Python modules for interacting with GitHub. They are used in a handful of GitHub Actions workflows that open PRs. It could easily be merged into repo-tools.

Removal

This repository will be archived and it will not be part of the Open edX named release, starting with Redwood.

(the repo contains a redwood.master branch, but it will not get redwood.1 tag if this is accepted in time)

Replacement

This repo used to have a bunch of scripts used by edX's Jenkins server. Those have mostly all been replaced in a community-friendly way with a mix of GitHub Actions workflows, scripts in app repos, and Tutor.

The remaining module that Open edX still uses, pull_request_creator, will be moved into repo-tools: https://github.com/openedx/repo-tools/pull/517

Deprecation

I'll put a notice in the README.

Migration

Workflows that currently clone and install testeng-ci for the pull_request_creator tool should instead:

git clone https://github.com/openedx/repo-tools
pip install -e .[pull_request_creator]
pull_request_creator ...

Additional Info

N/A

### Task List
- [x] Transfer this issue to public-engineering.
- [ ] https://github.com/openedx/repo-tools/pull/517
- [ ] https://github.com/openedx/.github/pull/137
- [ ] https://github.com/openedx/testeng-ci/pull/423
- [ ] https://github.com/openedx/axim-engineering/issues/1154

[kdmccormick]

https://discuss.openedx.org/t/deprecation-removal-testeng-ci/13000

[kdmccormick]

@robrap I had originally mentioned on this ticket that 2U would probably need to fork testeng-ci from openedx-unsupported and continue maintaining it in the edx org, but I believe I was mistaken. I thought that this repo supported 2U jenkins infrastructure; my understanding now is that all the Jenkins stuff has already been removed.

All that remains in testeng-ci today is the pull_request_creator script, which several of our shared GitHub workflows use. So, for this DEPR, we'll move that script to repo-tools and then archive testeng-ci. If there's any 2U work, it'll just be updating of references in your own GitHub workflows from testeng-ci to repo-tools. Thanks to GH's forwarding, that won't be time sensitive, unless GHA ever makes a change that breaks the script in openedx-unsupported/testeng-ci.

[kdmccormick]

Replacement and removal is complete.