[NIFI-7157] Investigate adoption of Github Workflow - Actions - CI

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.12.0, 1.11.3
• Component/s: Tools and Build
• Assignee: Joe Witt
• Reporter: Joe Witt
• Created: 15/Feb/20 03:44
• Updated: 21/Feb/20 20:38
• Resolved: 21/Feb/20 00:38

Description

Travis CI has done a ton for us. Thank you for the fun. But it has been quite tough to wrangle as of late. Github has a nice Workflow mechanism we can use and Apache Spark has adopted it. Their results seem quite nice.

Kudos to pierre v for flagging this.

https://help.github.com/en/actions/configuring-and-managing-workflows/configuring-a-workflow

https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/.github/workflows/master.yml

much awesome https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/.github/workflows/stale.yml

results of how this works in terms of PR review https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/27591/checks?check_run_id=447219239

Issue Links

• supercedes: NIFI-7137 Consider Github Actions as a replacement of Travis CI
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #4058