Re: non-x86 runners in the Gitlab-CI (was: Re: [PATCH 12/12] configure: bump min required CLang to 7.0.0 / XCode 10.2)

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 04:51:25PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 4:00 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> 
> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 03:55:59PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > > On 12/05/2021 15.47, Willian Rampazzo wrote:
> 
> > > > I don't know if you saw this:
> > > > https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/billing-overview/#partner-queue-solution.
> > > >
> > > > tl;dr, Travis now has support from partners to run non-x86 arch. It is
> > > > always good to have a plan B, like qemu own CI runners, but, at least,
> > > > with these non-x86 arch available on Travis, we will have some time to
> > > > breathe.
> 
> >   "The build job under Partner Queue Solution costs 0 credits per
> >    started minute. At the moment of introducing Partner Queue Solution
> >    active accounts on the Usage based Plans, including the Free Plan,
> >    with a balance of zero or fewer credits, balance is updated to
> >    hold 1 credit. Thus everybody can use Partner Queues without
> >    requesting Travis CI support to grant additional credits. If you
> >    run into a negative account balance after that, you still need to
> >    file an additional request."
> >
> > IOW, anyone ought to be able to use non-x86 jobs, bt if you accidentally
> > run an x86 job and get into 0 (or negative) credits, then you won't even
> > be able to use non-x86 jobs.
> 
> You once showed a script on GitLab triggering Travis-CI jobs and reporting
> the success/failure on GitLab (or was it Cirrus-CI?). Is it possible to use
> something similar with QEMU to integrate Travis-CI jobs with GitLab
> pipeline?

If you login to Travis using GitLab  SSO, instead of GitHub SSO,
then it will magically create an extra stage in your GitLab pipeline
and report Travis results there. I mentioned this here:

  https://wiki.qemu.org/Testing/CI/Integrated#Travis_CI_setup

though I never tried it out in anger - it was more a case of me
noticing it happening by accident.

Regards,
Daniel
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