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

Jochen Sprickerhof <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:50:32 +0200
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Hi Chris,

* Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]> [2026-07-24 10:33]:
>That's all nice, but when the CI config changes after setting it up=20
>and then breaks, we can't expect everybody to run around busily and=20
>disable newly failing or even newly appearing jobs.
>
>A good example is this:
>https://salsa.debian.org/debian/pdns-recursor/-/jobs/10005512
>
>Completely unactionable to me, not enabled by me, the job wasn't there=20
>when I configured salsa-ci the last time, yet now CI is red.
>
>"Thanks!"
>
>I'm not gonna spend time on fixing CI that used to work for something=20
>that I didn't break. At least not in the next 6 months. Contributor=20
>time is limited - such changes only waste it.

(Not commenting on the general topic.)

I added that job to replace the old reprotest and I think it makes sense=20
given that britney uses the debrebuild results on reproduce.d.n.

Thanks for pointing out that failed job, I can't reproduce it locally=20
and will look into it.

Cheers Jochen

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