Stages and steps need clarification for the end user about tic HOT 7 CLOSED

• function that emulates a Travis/Appveyor run
• reduce steps to lcd between Travis/Appveyor
• flow chart?
• figure in the middle of http://ctlente.com/en/purrr-magic/: .travis.yml -> tic.R -> code

deploy: failure aborts build
after_success: failure does nothing

• introductory video

• assume existing user with knowledge about Travis CI and .travis.yml

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A flow chart would be really useful (for this but also in general actually, so probably several flowcharts?).

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When I say in general I mean the general concept of using GitHub and Travis CI to deploy "stuff".

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We could point users new to Travis CI to e.g. http://mahugh.com/2016/09/02/travis-ci-for-test-automation/.

The "build lifecycle" is described at https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/customizing-the-build#The-Build-Lifecycle, but they don't have a flow chart and the description isn't particularly detailed (e.g. it doesn't explain that failures in after_install etc. don't trigger a failed build). I couldn't find anything similar for AppVeyor. Maybe upstream needs better documentation too.

I have created https://github.com/krlmlr/ci-lifecycle to test various failure modes in the Travis CI and AppVeyor lifecycles, this repo could also host a more detailed description and the flow charts.

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Build in the ci-lifecycle repo: https://travis-ci.org/krlmlr/ci-lifecycle/builds/397482622

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Closing in favor of #57, which contains the structure of a new vignette to be written. Happy to continue discussion there.

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#57 incorporates most of the topics discussed here, some are solved already.

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