migrating from Travis to GitHub Actions

[callahantiff]

Do we want to migrate from Travis to GitHub Actions? If so, I am happy to do the work. I converted Luca's pipeline to run with all of the same coverage metrics for my repositories and am happy to do the same for this repo (examples here and here).

Given the permissions needed to make transformation, I'd likely need to do some of the work with @pnrobinson, but now that I have done the conversion on a few repos it should be pretty painless!

[pnrobinson]

Not that familiar with GitHub actions, does it do about the same thing as Travis? After a quick glance at PheKnowLator it does look powerful

[callahantiff]

It provides a nice free alternative to Travis since it's now moved to being a paid service. I have tried to configure it to shadow @LucaCappelletti94's original Travis configuration, so you shouldn't notice any feature loss. I am really loving it for how easy it is to build in other functionality (e.g. deploying containers and integration with cloud-based storage services) and it seems to run faster than Travis did (at least for my repos).

[justaddcoffee]

Good idea Tiffany - I did the conversion from Travis to GH actions to run unit tests and linters for KG-COVID-19 and NEAT, I might be able to help a bit too. Not sure if I’m admin on Embiggen, but if not yeah we’d need Peter or someone else with admin to help

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[LucaCappelletti94]

Does anyone have expertise in GitHub action? I would love to see them used for the package but I am absolutely ignorant of them as of now.

[pnrobinson]

@justaddcoffee has some experience and I have done this in some other projects. Poorly documented. We could hack on it.

[justaddcoffee]

I'm not terrible at github actions - maybe we can hack on this tomorrow @LucaCappelletti94 @pnrobinson

[callahantiff]

If it is helpful, I converted a very similar set-up from Tavis to GitHub Actions. You might be able to start from this.

https://github.com/callahantiff/PheKnowLator/blob/master/.github/workflows/build-qa.yml