Re: gitlab-ci: Only build /staging branch?

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 3/25/21 10:29 AM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 3/25/21 6:43 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> On 24/03/2021 22.58, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>> On 3/24/21 7:33 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>>> On 3/24/21 7:01 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Peter's current workflow is push to /staging and if his
>>>>> testing succeeds, he pushes the same commit as /master.
>>>>>
>>>>> IMO there is no point in building /master branch, as it
>>>>> has already been built earlier as /staging.
>>>
>>> Similarly with tags. Although we don't tag often.
>>
>> Tags are used for pull-requests. So I think we should run the whole CI
>> for tags, to make it clear that a pull-request always includes code that
>> builds fine.
> 
> Sorry the context was not clear :/
> 
> This is only relevant for the qemu-project/qemu gitlab namespace.
> 
> v6.0 is at the door and I was wondering what is missing to have the
> CI used as a gate.
> 
> - Stefan/Paolo moved the main repository location.
> 
> - Alex made yet another effort to get the CI pipeline green again.
> 
> - IIRC Peter said waiting 2h after pushing /staging is too long.
> Currently worst case it takes ~2h25 between one /staging and the
> next one, simply because /master is rebuilt in the middle. If we
> remove /master we have ~1h15 per /staging pipeline.
> 
> - I don't remember what is missing from Cleber script, maybe we can
> use it as it without waiting for a respin?

As someone else is caring about this, please disregard this thread
and its questions/suggestions.

Regards,

Phil.