software-process

This wiki serves as a hub for software process documentation at Kitware. Some links will go to private projects as needed.

Overall, there's a mix of system management and development involved. Everything should be aiming to help the development of the primary projects at Kitware.

• Maintaining CI resources
  • Hardware
  • Software updates
  • Deployment configuration
  • Monitoring
  • Pushing CI Docker images to DockerHub
  • Packaging workflows
    • CMake
• Software process documentation
  • Git patterns
    • Branchy workflow
    • Release process
    • Rehosting sources
    • Backport topics
• Maintaining CI configurations
  • Documenting the CI setup and design
  • Coordinating changes across repositories
  • Watching nightly pipelines (using the @buildbot account)
    • Common failure documentation
  • Maintaining common scripts and utilities
    • Tools and dependencies used by CI
    • Scripts for release management
    • Scripts for CDash interactions
    • Hook management
    • Girder data management
  • Developer documentation
  • Ghostflow deployment
    • Configuration requests
    • Configuration management
    • Documentation
  • Ghostflow development
    • ghostflow-director: The service we deploy and acts as @kwrobot on GitLab
      • rust-ghostflow: Implementation of the actions performed by ghostflow-director
      • rust-gitlab: GitLab API bindings
      • rust-git-checks: Content checks on repositories
      • rust-git-topic-stage: Code which manages a "stage" branch for pre-merge integration testing
      • rust-git-workarea: Library which makes it easy to performantly work with Git checkouts
      • rust-json-job-dispatch: Event loop managed by JSON files on the filesystem (for persistence)
      • rust-yaml-merge-keys: Implementation of the YAML Merge Keys extension
    • ci-monitoring: Tools to fetch data about CI resources.
    • webhook-listen: Webhook listener and router (creates JSON jobs for the director)
    • source-formatters: Scripts to use with format enforcement and reformatting
• GitLab management
  • Updates
  • Fixing bugs as needed
  • Spam management
  • Support scripts
  • (Historical) Mantis migration
• Third party import management
  • Bringing in new projects
  • Updating project repositories
  • Core script for performing imports
  • Importing and integrating into projects
• Package signing resources
  • Package signing requests
  • (Deferred) token-at-a-distance