[Nix-dev] Hydra

[Dev.Rideau.Fare]

Dear NixOS developers,


I'm trying to determine how feasible it would be (with how much work) to use Hydra for a CI environment at work (replacing buildbot).


* I don't see much documentation. Many links are dead or redirect to the wrong thing: the old 2008 paper mentions nixos.org/hydra-scp but that doesn't exist. The "instructions available" link to a hydra job instead of an actual manual, and trying to manually link on "manual" goes to 404.


* How do you specify tests with hydra? When tests are stateful (especially integration tests), can it distinguish between tests that actually failed, and failure to test due to e.g. timeout trying to setup a test server? Can it handle retrying such tests?


* Can Hydra drive Nix workers on Windows? on MacOS?


* How much work would it be to make the above work, if it doesn't work yet?


-#f

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