Serious doubts about Gitlab CI

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

Hi,

For some (unclear) reason I got my free tier Gitlab account renewed and
lost the privilege for users opening account before the quota limit.

I pushed a single branch to my namespace repo to trigger a pipeline.
1h later I was surprised to see the pipeline was stuck, having completed
99 jobs of 119. Looking closer there is a red comment on top of the
pipeline:

 philmd has exceeded its pipeline minutes quota. Unless you buy
 additional pipeline minutes, no new jobs or pipelines in its projects
 will run. [Buy more Pipelines minutes]

So I exhausted my 400 monthly minutes credit.

>From this FAQ:
https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/faq-consumption-cicd/#managing-your-cicd-minutes-usage

Q. What happens if I hit the CI/CD Minutes allotted limit and forget to
purchase additional CI/CD Minutes?

A. You will not be able to run new jobs until you purchase additional
CI/CD Minutes, or until the next month when you receive your monthly
allotted CI/CD Minutes.

Q. Will I be notified before I hit my limit on CI/CD Minutes?

A. You will receive notification banners in-app when your group has less
than 30%, 5% or exceeded your total allotted CI/CD minutes.

I indeed received 3 warnings in 7 minutes.

Now I'm having serious doubts about Gitlab usefulness for the QEMU
community...

Some screenshots FWIW:

https://pasteboard.co/JT51wGR.png
https://pasteboard.co/JT51Rqq.png
https://pasteboard.co/JT52fNL.png

Regards,

Phil.