[lime-dev] First steps on Continuous Integration for LibreMesh

Hello everyone, Ilario and I finally finished to have everything configured to have continuous integration for the lime-packages repository. https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/pull/186 Continuous Integration (CI) is the practice of having tests done on every branch that is going to become part of your master branch, in order to fulfill a certain level of quality. The current stake on doing CI runs a build on all the repo and verifies that it runs successfully. So, if you have any tests on your code (hint: nothing there for the moment) it will be run with your build and fail if something changed that broke the code. Also, the CI will publish the resulting images from the build as a comment on the Pull Request to facilitate the testing... no more need to build locally to test the branch. Just download the image, run it on qemu and test. That way we reduce preparation time for testing from 30+ minutes to 5 minutes or less. if you are interested in adding tests to the code, I've written a blogpost on freifunk blog about talking about lua and testing (one of the languages we use on LibreMesh): https://blog.freifunk.net/2017/06/29/tdd-unit-testing-lua-openwrtlede-c ase/ If you want to check past previous executions, you can check them here: https://travis-ci.org/libremesh/lime-packages Also we have a badge that indicates the health of the branch on the README: https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/blob/develop/README.md Hope this helps people get more involved on coding for LibreMesh! Regards,