This kind of problem will be generically solved for everyone once we get
GitLab's pre-commit CI, which can block merging of MRs until the
failures are resolved--so they actually *will* be resolved. How soon can
we get that finally rolled out across KDE?
Until that happens, this sort of problem will recur infinitely because
people will continue to miss or ignore CI failures because they send
emails after merge/commit rather than before, and are formatted
semi-incomprehensibly.
Nate
On 6/16/21 12:28 PM, Ben Cooksley wrote:
Hi all,
The following is notice that I intend to withdraw CI services from the
following two KDE projects due to faults in their code or build system
which are having a significant adverse impact on the CI system and
negatively impacting on other projects:
- KDevelop
- KDE Connect
This withdrawal will be applied to all platforms.
In the case of KDevelop, it has a series of unit tests which on FreeBSD
cause gdb to hang and consume an entire CPU core indefinitely. This
slows down builds for all other projects using that CI server, and also
prevents KWin tests from proceeding - completely blocking it's jobs.
This fault is in the debuggee_slow family of tests.
As this issue has persisted for some time now despite being mentioned, I
require that the family of tests in question be disabled across all
platforms.
In the case of KDE Connect, as part of it's configure process it runs an
external command that results in dbus-daemon being launched. This
process persists following the build and would only be cleaned up by our
tooling that runs tests. Should the compilation fail (as it does
currently) it will result in the CI builder being broken - which is why
we have had so many Windows builds fail lately.
As this is an issue that has occurred previously, I require that the
configure time check which is launching dbus-daemon to be expunged from
KDE Connect.
As a reminder to all projects, running commands that interact with
dbus-daemon or kdeinit is not permitted during configure or build time.
Regards,
Ben Cooksley
KDE Sysadmin
