Re: [RFC PATCH-for-5.2] gitlab-ci: Do not automatically run Avocado integration tests anymore

[Thomas Huth]

On 27/11/2020 18.41, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> We lately realized that the Avocado framework was not designed
> to be regularly run on CI environments. Therefore, as of 5.2
> we deprecate the gitlab-ci jobs using Avocado. To not disrupt
> current users, it is possible to keep the current behavior by
> setting the QEMU_CI_INTEGRATION_JOBS_PRE_5_2_RELEASE variable
> (see [*]).
> From now on, using these jobs (or adding new tests to them)
> is strongly discouraged.
> 
> Tests based on Avocado will be ported to new job schemes during
> the next releases, with better documentation and templates.

Why should we disable the jobs by default as long as there is no replacement
available yet?

 Thomas