This code does not have any dependencies that are specific to any specific
version of ubuntu. So instead of testing on a specific version and then needing
to do work to keep the versions up-to-date, we switch to the ubuntu-latest
target which should be sufficient for testing purposes.
This work is being done as a part of https://github.com/openedx/platform-roadmap/issues/377
closes https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/issues/35314
All CI used to go through scripts/generic-ci-tests.sh, which is a
wrapper around various `paver` test/linting/check invocations.
These days, most edx-platform CI checks just invoke their tools (pylint,
pycodestyle, pytest, etc.) directly.
In anticipation of the proposed Paver deprecation [1], let's remove
the parts of this script that aren't used any more, including several
`paver` command invocations. This should have no impact on CI.
Furthermore, we are able to remove the SHARD environment variable,
which was formely used to split unit and quality checks up into
smaller pieces. Unit tests and pylint checks now have their own
separate sharding logic, so there is only one "quality" shard remaining
(SHARD=4, ie generic quality checks), thus we don't need a SHARD
variable at all.
[1] https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/issues/34467
We have a need to lock the version of Django for production and tests, but
also to test on newer versions of Django so that we can get the repo ready
for long-term-support releases.
We've been doing that by extracting the `django==x.y.z` from the
pip-compiled files and moving it to a django.txt that is then co-installed
but can be overridden during tests. The problem is that this can result
in broken packages.
The approach here is to have `make test-requirements` continue to
ensure a consistent set of packages, and then install a different
Django on top of that in the CI script -- and call `pip check` to make
sure that combination isn't broken.
Adding Django 4.0 to the unit-tests.yml matrix will now correctly
result in this error and a failing job:
`django-splash 1.2.1 has requirement Django<4.0, but you have django 4.0.8.`
The other half of this is to change other CI runners to remove their
ability to control the Django version, since it's complicated to make
this work, and we probably only need it in unit-tests.yml. Convert them
to just use `make test-requirements`.
Also:
- Simplify handling of `pip --src` by setting `PIP_SRC` (rather than our
own `PIP_SRC_DIR`, which pip ignores because `--src-dir` isn't an option
that it knows). This is needed to allow `make test-requirements` to do
the pip calls. An alternative would be to set a pip-options env var for
the make target to use, but `PIP_SRC` already exists.
- Remove outdated modifications to common_constraints
- Add comment explaining why pylint tests need dev-requirements
