Re: [RFC] Enabling GitLab CI

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

Am Donnerstag, den 21.05.2020, 17:21 +0200 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys:
> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 1:17 PM James <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 21/05/2020 12:02, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > > so a next step might be making the countdown process more
> > > continuous.
> > 
> > What does that mean - even conceptually?
> 
> My idea is that patches could enter 'countdown' stage throughout the
> day, and when they do a 48 hour period waiting period kicks in. This
> means the moment they are mergable will be more spread out throughout
> the day.
> 
> My main worry is that the CI process (make doc) will be forced to run
> on machines with less CPU power, and the whole test/doc cycle would
> take 1 or even 2 hours. If CI takes 2 hours, we'd realistically only
> be able to merge 8 changes on a day.

The full pipeline (build & test & doc) takes less than 1 hour on
GitLab's shared runners with a single core. I think it's a safe bet
that it can't get worse than that. If LilyPond itself gets slower by a
factor of 2, I'd call that a regression in general.

Jonas

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