Switch to Jenkins from travis-ci

[hbowden]

Travis CI has several limitations that make running a Jenkins server desirable.

1. First Travis CI does not support FreeBSD and the Travis CI team shows little interest in adding FreeBSD anytime soon or at all. Which can be seen in these issues: FreeBSD support travis-ci/travis-ci#1818 and FreeBSD support travis-ci/travis-ci#5473

2. Second performance on Travis CI for OSX is terrible. Some OSX builds start a half hour or longer after the linux build has finished.

3. Lack of illumos support SmartOS support travis-ci/travis-ci#1368

[kinow]

Do you have some spare servers for running Jenkins & slaves? Or are you looking into getting resources from some company, or group like OSUOSL?

[hbowden]

@kinov I have a FreeBSD server I can run jenkins on and I was thinking of using bhyve for virtualizing the slaves.

[kinow]

Nice! Never used bhyve, but have used Jenkins in several projects in the past. Keen to help with Jenkins if necessary 👍

[hbowden]

Bhyve is pretty awesome I've used it for virtualizing linux and windows before but unfortunately it doesn't support macOS yet. So I was thinking of setting up a centos or debian server on aws or google cloud and use kvm for the macOS slave. Your help with the jenkins configuration would be much appreciated as I have never set up a jenkins CI environment before. I'm busy until Wednesday so sometime after that I will have time available to setup jenkins.

[kinow]

Sure, that would work for me. I'm on +12 UTC, Auckland/New Zealand time zone, but we can work asynchronously though here or e-mail :-)

[hbowden]

@kinow I have free time tomorrow and Friday. I'm going to send you an email and we can use that for communication.

[kinow]

Sounds like a plan @hbowden :D

[kinow]

Getting back to this ticket this weekend :D

[cederom]

+1 for Jenkins over Travis for FreeBSD support :-)