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+.. note::
+ This section of the documentation is currently being written. pip
+ developers welcome your help to complete this documentation. If you're
+ interested in helping out, please let us know in the `tracking issue`_.
+
+.. _`tracking issue`: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7279
+
+**********************
+Continuous Integration
+**********************
+
+Supported interpreters
+======================
+
+pip support a variety of Python interpreters:
+
+ - CPython 2.7
+ - CPython 3.5
+ - CPython 3.6
+ - CPython 3.7
+ - CPython 3.8
+ - Latest PyPy
+ - Latest PyPy3
+
+on different operating systems:
+
+ - Linux
+ - Windows
+ - MacOS
+
+and on different architectures:
+
+ - x64
+ - x86
+
+so 42 hypothetical interpreters.
+
+
+Checks
+======
+
+``pip`` CI runs different kind of tests:
+
+- lint (defined in ``.pre-commit-config.yaml``)
+- docs
+- vendoring (is the ``src/_internal/_vendor`` directory cleanly vendored)
+- unit tests (present in ``tests/unit``)
+- "integration" tests (mostly present in ``tests/functional``)
+- package (test the packaging steps)
+
+Since lint, docs, vendoring and package tests only need to run on a pip
+developer/contributor machine, they only need to be tested on the x64 variant
+of the 3 different operating systems, and when an interpreter needs to be
+specified it's ok to require the latest CPython interpreter.
+
+So only unit tests and integration tests would need to be run with the different
+interpreters.
+
+Services
+========
+
+pip test suite and checks are distributed on four different platforms that
+provides free executors for open source packages:
+
+ - `Travis CI`_ (Used for Linux)
+ - `Appveyor CI`_ (Windows only)
+ - `Azure DevOps CI`_ (Linux, MacOS & Windows tests)
+ - `GitHub Actions`_ (Linux, MacOS & Windows tests)
+
+.. _`Travis CI`: https://travis-ci.org/
+.. _`Appveyor CI`: https://www.appveyor.com/
+.. _`Azure DevOps CI`: https://dev.azure.com/
+.. _`GitHub Actions`: https://github.com/features/actions
+
+
+Current run tests
+=================
+
+Developer tasks
+---------------
+
+======== =============== ================ =========== ============
+ OS docs lint vendoring packages
+======== =============== ================ =========== ============
+Linux Travis, Github Travis, Github Travis Azure
+Windows Azure
+MacOS Azure
+======== =============== ================ =========== ============
+
+Actual testing
+--------------
+
++------------------------------+---------------+-----------------+
+| **interpreter** | **unit** | **integration** |
++-----------+----------+-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP2.7 | Azure | Azure |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP3.5 | Azure | |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP3.6 | Azure | |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | x86 | CP3.7 | Azure | |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP3.8 | | |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | PyPy | | |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | PyPy3 | | |
+| Windows +----------+-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP2.7 | Appveyor | Appveyor |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP3.5 | Azure | Azure |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP3.6 | Appveyor | Appveyor |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | x64 | CP3.7 | Azure | Azure |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP3.8 | | |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | PyPy | | |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | PyPy3 | | |
++-----------+----------+-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP2.7 | | |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP3.5 | | |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP3.6 | | |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | x86 | CP3.7 | | |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP3.8 | | |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | PyPy | | |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | PyPy3 | | |
+| Linux +----------+-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP2.7 | Travis,Azure | Travis,Azure |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP3.5 | Travis,Azure | Travis,Azure |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP3.6 | Travis,Azure | Travis,Azure |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | x64 | CP3.7 | Travis,Azure | Travis,Azure |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP3.8 | Travis | Travis |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | PyPy | Travis | Travis |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | PyPy3 | Travis | Travis |
++-----------+----------+-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP2.7 | | |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP3.5 | | |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP3.6 | | |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | x86 | CP3.7 | | |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP3.8 | | |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | PyPy | | |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | PyPy3 | | |
+| MacOS +----------+-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP2.7 | Azure | Azure |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP3.5 | Azure | Azure |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP3.6 | Azure | Azure |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | x64 | CP3.7 | Azure | Azure |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | CP3.8 | | |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | PyPy | | |
+| | +-------+---------------+-----------------+
+| | | PyPy3 | | |
++-----------+----------+-------+---------------+-----------------+
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@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ or the `pypa-dev mailing list`_, to ask questions or get involved.
getting-started
contributing
+ ci
issue-triage
architecture/index
release-process