Re: gitlab-ci: Only build /staging branch?

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 at 11:05, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 25/03/21 11:34, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > It needs to be faster. Mostly I do check the gitlab CI pipeline
> > status, but in the run-up to getting rc0 out I stopped waiting
> > for the gitlab CI job to finish, because I was continually finding
> > that I kicked off a run, my local build-tests would complete within
> > an hour or so, and the gitlab CI jobs were still pending, barely
> > started, etc. Turnaround on testing a merge must be 90 minutes or
> > less, especially during release periods, because there are always
> > a huge number of merges that arrive for me to test in the last
> > couple of days before freeze.
>
> Perhaps we could script it so that if the pipeline passes the merge to
> master is done automatically.

That would be nice eventually, but we can't do it until the gitlab
CI is the *only* gating criterion.

thanks
-- PMM