Purpose

The ASWF Continuous Integration (CI) Working Group is tasked to investigate and deliver tools, procedures and services used by ASWF projects in their development process, including:

• Revision control
• Build toolchains
• CI build environments
• Testing
• Packaging and distribution

Goals

Goals of the CI WG are:

• Provide and maintain VFX Reference Platform compliant build environments to be used by anyone requiring a common, reproducible Linux CI build process
• Provide expertise and consulting on tooling and CI processes for ASWF projects
• Identify common patterns between projects that can be factored out and reused.
• Support for Mac and Windows builds
• Support for multi-platform GPU-enabled build and testing
• Support for additional CPU architectures build and testing
• Support for integration of commercial applications and libraries for testing purposes
• Help integrate ASWF projects with established package management systems
• Provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between individuals interested in all aspects of the tooling and processes involved in software development, building and distribution

Non-Goals

Non-goals of the CI WG are:

• The CI Working Group does not aim to prescribe to individual projects how they should set up their infrastructure: projects are free to adopt or adapt what best suits their needs.

Deliverables

• This Wiki
• Docker configurations for VFX Reference Platform guided dependencies on GitHub
• Docker container images providing VFX Reference Platform compliant build environments hosted from an unthrottled Docker Hub account
• Sample project, including CI configuration on GitHub
• Active CI for all ASWF projects using a common platform, GitHub Actions.
• GPU accelerated builders to run project tests which require a GPU.
• JFrog Repository instance to host build artifacts for ASWF projects.
• Signing infrastructure for releases and build artifacts.

Meeting notes

Meeting notes, recordings, and any presentations made during WG meetings are available here.