Re: Understanding CI in Salsa, timeouts and runners

Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:43:48 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
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On Wed, 2026-06-03 at 17:50 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 2, 2026 5:49:22 AM Mountain Standard Time Ben Hutchings 
> wrote:
> > The current maximum of 3 hours is already an absurdly long time to wait
> > for CI.
> 
> That depends on what you are building.  Have you ever tried to build Chromium?  
> Or Qt WebEngine?

Thankfully no.  And I did not mean to imply that I could offer a
solution that would work for every package.  My point was that it's a
terrible developer experience to have to wait hours for CI (or a local
build).  If it's not possible to run a build via Salsa in 3 hours then
you might as well give up on that and only do local builds, which are
almost certainly going to be faster.

The fact that some large corporations produce monolithic software
releases that take an absurdly long time for us to build is a reflection
of the much greater computing resources they have.  I think it also
shows a lack of concern for a wider community of developers and
distributors.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption]
would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
                                                           - Bill Gates

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