Re: Don't run Salsa CI in vain - a disabled CI is better than a persistently failing one

On Sat, Jun 27, 2026 at 01:41:38PM +0300, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:

> If you do want to use Salsa CI but struggle to get it fully green, you
> can also just disable the failing jobs without turning off the entire
> pipeline [2].

That's what I usually do:

Disable job "foo" until someone figures out how to fix it.

and I highly recommend it as well.

In fact, I believe this should be the first recommendation, before
considering to disable the pipeline completely as you suggest in the
subject. So, while I agree that a disabled CI is better than a
persistently failing one, I think a CI which becomes green by dropping
a single job is a lot better than a disabled CI.

I know there is also another school of thought which proposes to make
the failures non-fatal, but IMO that should only be done if there is
really a fix in the horizon. If there is not, there is little point in
wasting resources.

Thanks.