Re: more automated/public CI for QEMU pullreqs

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 11:50, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks for writing up this summary!  The requirements and possible
> solutions are now clear.
>
> We need someone willing to set up and maintain the CI.
>
> One-off tasks:
>
> 1. Create CI runners that offer similar cross-architecture coverage to
>    Peter's current setup.  qemu.org has some x86, ppc, and s390 server
>    resources available.  I'm not sure about ARM and other architectures.
>
> 2. Write CI configuration to run Peter's "make && make check && make
>    check-tcg && linux-user-test".
>
> 3. Document the CI on wiki.qemu.org.
>
> Ongoing responsibilities:
>
> 1. Triage failures that the qemu.git maintainer thinks are related to CI
>    runners.
>
> 2. Keep the CI up-to-date and runners online.
>
> Any volunteers?

I see this call for volunteers didn't attract any offers :-/

Thread consensus seems to be toward using gitlab CI -- assuming
we can hand-build the gitlab runner for the architectures
we need without having to block on gitlab fixing their weird
"build for all architectures at once" packaging ?

thanks
-- PMM