Re: Serious doubts about Gitlab CI

[Markus Armbruster]

Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 09:33:43AM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 09:30:41PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> > On 18/03/21 20:46, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> > > 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.
>> > 
>> > Each merge request consumes about 2500.  That won't last long.
>> 
>> Yikes, that is 41 hours per CI run. I wonder if GitLab's CI minutes are
>> on slow machines or if we'll hit the same issue with dedicated runners.
>> It seems like CI optimization will be necessary...
>>
>
> We need to reduce the amount of CI we do, not only because we can't afford
> it, but because it's wasteful. I hate to think of all the kWhs spent
> testing the exact same code in the exact same way, since everyone runs
> everything with a simple 'git push'.

I normally refrain from posting +1s, but I feel this message really
needs "plussing": right you are!  This kind of wastefulness has bothered
me a lot.

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