Hi Everyone,

I wanted to give an update on the availability of the TF-A OpenCI. Recognised projects contributors can now invoke the OpenCI on patches they submit or patches they review through Gerrit and so view results and fix any issues identified without an Arm reviewer having to intercede and start the Open CI for them.

This is achieved in Gerrit patches (https://review.trustedfirmware.org/p/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a/+/dashboard/site:main) by setting the Allow-CI label with +1 or +2 where +1 is a light level of testing and +2 includes additional tests on top of the +1 tests. Results are linked to in the Gerrit patch comments.

Recognised projects contributors is currently seeded as everybody listed in https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a.git/tree/docs/about/maintainers.rst including all maintainers and code-owners. The intent going forward is to include others when vouched for by other recognised projects contributors. In this way we hope to be open to all project contributors to have access to the OpenCI while providing some protection to the OpenCI back end resources.

The plan is to have another  TF-A Tech-Forum session on the OpenCI on 8^th April 2021 where more of the details of the OpenCI can be shared, discussed and questions can be taken.

For now please experiment with the OpenCI through your patch submissions or reviews. Please be aware this is a shared resource and use when appropriate during the patch review and be tolerant if its not quite perfect yet. Please rest assured the existing Legacy CI is still available during this transition to the OpenCI where needed to help ensure patches are adequately tested to maintain repository quality levels.

I’ll like to say a big thanks to the Linaro team working in the background to provide the OpenCI service to the TF-A project.

Cheers

Joanna