Re: Serious doubts about Gitlab CI

[John Snow]

On 3/18/21 3:46 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 09:29:32PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > Now I'm having serious doubts about Gitlab usefulness for the QEMU
> > community...
>
> The QEMU Project has 50,000 minutes of GitLab CI quota. Let's enable
> GitLab Merge Requests so that anyone can submit a merge request and get
> CI coverage.

How does this workflow work?

I push to my branch, I submit a MR, CI runs?

I suppose there must be a way for me to disable a CI run on my branch if 
I intend to trigger it via a MR, to avoid eating minutes twice.

--js

> I think we need to expect free tiers to be insufficient for full CI
> coverage. In the longer term we probably need to rely on dedicated
> runners, although I'm not sure how much of the issue is QEMU's huge CI
> pipeline versus the performance limitations of shared runners.
>
> Stefan