Switch to Github Actions and remove constraints on the cryptography and mysqlclient packages.

[symbolist]

Description

We have a constraint on the cryptography package because the CircleCI tests use alpine docker image on which a Rust dependency is unavailable.

To be able to install blockstore as a package in edx-platform, this constraint needs to be removed (edx-platform is on the latest version of the cryptography package).

CircleCI provides custom docker images but to be able to use Docker Hub images, to get around the rate-limiting, tokens will need to be set up (I am not clear why we haven't hit that for the alpine image). Instead it is simpler to switch to Github actions which is already being used for two workflows in this repo and which a number of other repos in the edx org have switched to.

Ticket

• BOM-2643
• FAL-2231

Author Comments, Concerns, and Open Questions

Test Instructions

• Verify the Github Actions job run the relevant tests and quality checks.
• Checkout the branch locally.
• Run

make destroy
make build
make dev.up
make dev.provision
make blockstore-shell

# In the shell
make test

TODOs

If anything isn't yet done, list it here

• Get Github Actions CI job green.
• Remove constraints on the cryptography and mysqlclient packages.

[openedx-webhooks]

Thanks for the pull request, @symbolist! I've created OSPR-6028 to keep track of it in JIRA.

As a core committer in this repo, you can merge this once the pull request is approved per the core committer reviewer requirements and according to the agreement with your edX Champion.

[natabene]

@symbolist Thank you for your contribution. @bradenmacdonald Would you like to review this?

[bradenmacdonald]

@natabene Yes, I'd be happy to review this.

[natabene]

@bradenmacdonald Thank you!

[bradenmacdonald]

@symbolist I see this is green but still marked as a draft; let me know when it's ready for review.

[symbolist]

@bradenmacdonald It is ready for review now!

[symbolist]

libssl-dev and libffi-dev were required by the cryptography package but according to the docs, with the latest version of pip, a binary wheel is installed so those are no longer needed.

[bradenmacdonald]

👍 please merge at your convenience.

• I tested this: Ran make dev.build and make easyserver, confirmed GitHub build is green
• I read through the code
• I checked for accessibility issues: n/a
• Includes documentation: n/a

[natabene]

@ormsbee Any chance you would help us with this CircleCI request?

[kdmccormick]

Just disabled the build in CircleCI settings. Going to close and re-open this. fyi @natabene @symbolist

[openedx-webhooks]

Hello @symbolist: We are unable to continue with review of your submission at this time. Please see the associated JIRA ticket for more explanation.

[natabene]

@pomegranited Is this helpful?

[kdmccormick]

Hm, that may not have worked. I'm on a phone right now -- I can take another look in an hour when I'm on a laptop.

[natabene]

@kdmccormick Thanks for much for looking into this.

[kdmccormick]

@symbolist I amended your most recent commit (with no changes) and force-pushed. Let's see if that works.

[kdmccormick]

Great, there we go. I think the branch's head commit hash needed to be changed in order to get rid of the CircleCI status.

@natabene @symbolist @pomegranited @bradenmacdonald This PR should be good to move forward now.

[openedx-webhooks]

@ormsbee, @kdmccormick: thought you might like to know that symbolist merged this pull request.

[symbolist]

@kdmccormick Thanks, that worked!