Re: [PATCH] gitlab-ci: Make more custom runner jobs manual, and don't allow failure

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 13 Sept 2021 at 11:32, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 11:19:48AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > Currently we define a lot of jobs for our custom runners:
> > for both aarch64 and s390x we have
> >  - all-linux-static
> >  - all
> >  - alldbg
> >  - clang (manual)
> >  - tci
> >  - notcg (manual)
> >
> > This is overkill.  The main reason to run on these hosts is to get
> > coverage for the host architecture; we can leave the handling of
> > differences like debug vs non-debug to the x86 CI jobs.
> >
> > The jobs are also generally running OK; they occasionally fail due to
> > timeouts, which is likely because we're overloading the machine by
> > asking it to run 4 CI jobs at once plus the ad-hoc CI.
> >
> > Remove the 'allow_failure' tag from all these jobs, and switch the
> > s390x-alldbg, aarch64-all, s390x-tci and aarch64-tci jobs to manual.
>
> Why the difference in skipping  'alldbg' vs 'all'  ? Was that just
> to get diverse coverage of debug vs non-debug ?

Yeah, I figured we might as well run one on each.

thanks
-- PMM