Re: retrying failed gitlab CI external jobs (travis)

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 at 10:22, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> WRT missing job for commit fc32b91a, I see there is a Travis stage
> reported here:
>
>   https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/pipelines/334907106/builds
>
> So I presume there was some delay in running the Travis jobs and
> thus they only got reported after you sent the mail.
>
> The extra stage in the pipeline is not triggered/tracked by GitLab
> itself. Rather it relies on Travis to see the changes, runs its job
> and pushes information back to GitLab. This is completely asynchronous
> to the rest of the normal GitLab pipeline, so unfortunately if Travis
> hasn't even started the job yet, we see nothing :=(

Hmm. If nothing shows up in the gitlab pipeline, it doesn't really
work as a gating CI step, because I won't see if it fails...

thanks
-- PMM