Re: Obstacles for using GitLab CI

[Urs Liska]

Am Mittwoch, den 13.05.2020, 22:33 -0400 schrieb Dan Eble:
> On May 13, 2020, at 17:13, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > At the current point of time, our pipeline does not tend to be
> > > > all that
> > > > full I think.  We are not at Linux kernel levels of
> > > > participation...
> > > 
> > > No, you're probably right. It's only a bit more bothersome if you
> > > have
> > > multiple changes to submit from the same countdown.
> > 
> > The real problem starts when people don't manage to get their patch
> > in
> > because the pipeline is always busy.  But if we are there, the free
> > CI
> > plan will most certainly not do the trick anymore.
> 
> One thing is clear: we need to make sure we don't abuse James'
> generosity, so I'm willing to try whatever system you think will be
> the fairest all around, even if it might be a bit "bothersome" as an
> individual submitter from time to time.
> 

That's true.
But I'd like to disencourage (can you say that?) using our small
contribution frequency as an argument here. Making it easier to
contribute and as a consequence have more contribution was a major
motivation behind all this. So while we'll surely never get to a Linux
kernel situation having a solution that scales to some activity
substantially increased from what we have now should be a requirement.

Urs

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