Re: [PATCH 0/5] QEMU Gating CI

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 14:13, Cleber Rosa <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 09:29:32AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > Ah, I see. My assumption was that this was all stuff that you were
> > working on, so that I would then be able to test that it worked correctly,
> > not that I would need to do configuration of the gitlab.com setup.

> So, I had to use temporary hardware resources to set this up (and set
> it up countless times TBH).  I had the understanding based on the list
> of machines you documented[1] that at least some of them would be used
> for the permanent setup.

Well, some of them will be (eg the s390 box), but some of them
are my personal ones that can't be reused easily. I'd assumed
in any case that gitlab would have at least support for x86 hosts:
we are definitely not going to continue to use my desktop machine
for running CI builds! Also IIRC RedHat said they'd be able to
provide some machines for runners.

> OK, I see it, now it makes more sense.  So we're "only" missing the
> setup for the machines we'll use for the more permanent setup.  Would
> you like to do a staged setup/migration using one or some of the
> machines you documented?  I'm 100% onboard to help with this, meaning
> that I can assist you with instructions, or do "pair setup" of the
> machines if needed.  I think a good part of the evaluation here comes
> down to how manageable/reproducible the setup is, so it'd make sense
> for one to be part of the setup itself.

I think we should start by getting the gitlab setup working
for the basic "x86 configs" first. Then we can try adding
a runner for s390 (that one's logistically easiest because
it is a project machine, not one owned by me personally or
by Linaro) once the basic framework is working, and expand
from there.

But to a large degree I really don't want to have to get
into the details of how gitlab works or setting up runners
myself if I can avoid it. We're going through this migration
because I want to be able to hand off the CI stuff to other
people, not to retain control of it.

thanks
-- PMM