Re: [PATCH] .travis.yml: Add description to each job

[Thomas Huth]

On 25/01/2020 19.31, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> The NAME variable can be used to describe nicely a job (see [*]).
> As we currently have 32 jobs, use it. This helps for quickly
> finding a particular job.
> 
>   before: https://travis-ci.org/qemu/qemu/builds/639887646
>   after: https://travis-ci.org/philmd/qemu/builds/641795043

Very good idea, correlating a job in the GUI to an entry in the yml file
was really a pain, so far.

> [*] 
> https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/customizing-the-build/#naming-jobs-within-matrices
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
> ---
>  .travis.yml | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>  1 file changed, 67 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
> index 6c1038a0f1..d68e35a2c5 100644
> --- a/.travis.yml
> +++ b/.travis.yml
> @@ -94,24 +94,28 @@ after_script:
>  
>  matrix:
>    include:
> -    - env:
> +    - name: "[x86] GCC static (user)"

Could you please drop the [x86] and other architectures from the names?
Travis already lists the build architecture in the job status page, so
this information is redundant.

[...]
>      # Alternate coroutines implementations are only really of interest to 
> KVM users
>      # However we can't test against KVM on Travis so we can only run unit 
> tests
> -    - env:
> +    - name: "[x86] check-unit coroutine=ucontext"
> +      env:
>          - CONFIG="--with-coroutine=ucontext --disable-tcg"
>          - TEST_CMD="make check-unit -j3 V=1"
>  
>  
> -    - env:
> +    - name: "[x86] check-unit coroutine=sigaltstack"
> +      env:
>          - CONFIG="--with-coroutine=sigaltstack --disable-tcg"
>          - TEST_CMD="make check-unit -j3 V=1"
>

Off-topic to your patch, but aren't coroutines something that is only
used in the softmmu targets? If so, we could add --disable-user to the
above two builds to speed things up a little bit.

>  
>      # Check we can build docs and tools (out of tree)
> -    - env:
> +    - name: "[x86] tools and docs"
> +      env:
>          - BUILD_DIR="out-of-tree/build/dir" SRC_DIR="../../.."

Also off-topic, but I think we can now remove the above line and fix the
comment - since all builds are now out-of-tree anyway, see commit
bc4486fb233573e.


> @@ -250,7 +271,8 @@ matrix:
>  
>  
>      # Python builds
> -    - env:
> +    - name: "[x86] GCC Python 3.5 (x86_64-softmmu)"
> +      env:

Off-topic again:
Python 3.5 is the default on xenial, and since we stopped using Python
2.7, I think we could remove this job now.

We could add some jobs with Bionic + Python 3.7 and 3.8 instead.

>          - CONFIG="--target-list=x86_64-softmmu"
>          - CACHE_NAME="${TRAVIS_BRANCH}-linux-gcc-default"
>        language: python
> @@ -258,7 +280,8 @@ matrix:
>          - "3.5"
>  
>  
> -    - env:
> +    - name: "[x86] GCC Python 3.6 (x86_64-softmmu)"
> +      env:
>          - CONFIG="--target-list=x86_64-softmmu"
>          - CACHE_NAME="${TRAVIS_BRANCH}-linux-gcc-default"
>        language: python

 Thomas