Re: [RFC PATCH] docs/about/build-platforms: Refine the distro support policy

[Markus Armbruster]

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> Il ven 17 feb 2023, 19:47 Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> ha scritto:
>
>> On 17/02/2023 16.59, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>> > On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 04:55:49PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> ....
>> > The cost/benefit tradeoff of dropping the platforms entirely
>> > is not obviously favourable when we don't have clear demand
>> > to bump the min versions of native packages, and the cost to
>> > users stuck on these platforms to build their own toolchain
>> > or libraries is very high.
>>
>> There's another urgent point which I completely forget to mention in my
>> patch description (not sure how I managed that, since it's bugging me
>> quite
>> badly in the past weeks): We're struggling heavily with CI minutes.
>
>
> The only viable solution for CI minutes is going to be private runners,
> it's not easy to cut 30% of the jobs.
>
> We're using less than half of our Azure sponsorship budget, and could also
> find other sources; either Azure Kubernetes or AWS Fargate are pretty cheap
> for running CI because unlike VM instances you pay for just the time that
> CI is running (at least with Azure you still have VMs but they scale out
> dynamically).

To anyone arguing for support of yet another host architecture / target
architecture / configuration / whatever: sponsoring its CI would
demonstrate seriousness :)

> The complicated part is setting up the kubernetes executor for
> gitlab-runner, but we'll find someone. :)