Re: On CI

2021-02-18 Thread John Ericson
I am also wary of us to deferring checking whole platforms and what not. I think that's just kicking the can down the road, and will result in more variance and uncertainty. It might be alright for those authoring PRs, but it will make Ben's job keeping the system running even more grueling.

Re: On CI

2021-02-18 Thread Ben Gamari
Moritz Angermann writes: > At this point I believe we have ample Linux build capacity. Darwin looks > pretty good as well the ~4 M1s we have should in principle also be able to > build x86_64-darwin at acceptable speeds. Although on Big Sur only. > > The aarch64-Linux story is a bit constraint

Re: On CI

2021-02-18 Thread Ben Gamari
Apologies for the latency here. This thread has required a fair amount of reflection. Sebastian Graf writes: > Hi Moritz, > > I, too, had my gripes with CI turnaround times in the past. Here's a > somewhat radical proposal: > >- Run "full-build" stage builds only on Marge MRs. Then we can

Re: On CI

2021-02-18 Thread Moritz Angermann
I'm glad to report that my math was off. But it was off only because I assumed that we'd successfully build all windows configurations, which we of course don't. Thus some builds fail faster. Sylvain also provided a windows machine temporarily, until it expired. This led to a slew of new windows