Re: Serious doubts about Gitlab CI

[Bin Meng]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 4:32 AM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> wrote:
>
> 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

This snapshot shows that 2278 / 400 minutes (569%) were used. Strange?

> https://pasteboard.co/JT52fNL.png

I checked my gitlab settings, and it shows 0 / 400 minutes. However I
am pretty sure I have been using gitlab CI this month several times.

Regards,
Bin