14: Continuous Integration with Travis CI – Josh Kalderimis

Interview with Josh Kalderimis from Travis CI.

Josh is a co-founder and Chief Post-It Officer at Travis CI.
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Topics:

• What is Continuous Integration, CI
• What is Travis CI
• Some history of the company
• travis-ci.org vs travis-ci.com and merging the two
• Enterprise and the importance of security
• Feature questions
  • Travis vs Jenkins
  • Travis notification through Slack
  • Reporting history of Travis results
  • Dealing with pytest results status other than pass/fail
  • Capturing std out and stderr logging from tests
  • Build artifacts
  • Tox and Travis
  • Using Selenium
• What does a Chief Post-It Officer do
• Differentiation between Travis and other CI options
• Using Slack to keep remote teams communicating well
• Travis team
• Funding open source projects
• Travis Foundation
• Rails Girls Summer of Code
• Open source grants
• Mustaches and beards
• Shite shirts
• New Zealand
• What does Team Periwinkle do
• and more

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Bonus:

But be sure to listen to the last 5 minutes.
I’ve got some bonus audio that didn’t quite fit into the rest of the interview that I tacked on at the end.

Links:

• Jeff Knupp’s Open Sourcing a Python Project the Right Way
• Sven’s blog post when Travis started
• Sven’s mustache and Josh’s beard
• Travis CI for open source
• Travis CI for private repositories and enterprise
• Slack
• Travis Foundation
• Rails Girls Summer of Code
• Talk Python to Me Podcast
• Please review on iTunes