Daniel Stone <dan...@fooishbar.org> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 at 20:59, Daniel Stone <dan...@fooishbar.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 11:13, Juan A. Suarez Romero <jasua...@igalia.com> 
>> wrote:
>> > This is a first part, version 2, of a more complete proposal to use GitLab 
>> > CI to
>> > build and test Mesa. This first part just adds the required pieces to build
>> > Mesa, using the different supported tools (meson, autotools, and scons).
>> >
>> > A second part, to be sent in the future, will use the results of the 
>> > former to
>> > run different tests and verify everything works fine.
>> >
>> > An example of the pipeline that will result from this patchset can be seen 
>> > at
>> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/jasuarez/mesa/pipelines/3070.
>> >
>> > I hope I can explain here all the rationale behind this proposal. Any 
>> > question
>> > is welcomed.
>>
>> I still have an open NAK since this would DoS our existing fd.o CI
>> runner infrastructure; GitLab itself is fine, but subjecting our
>> elderly build machine with a flaky network on the wrong continent to
>> this would be too much.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that I'll be able to stand up two sets of runners -
>> one still based in the UK, but on modern and dedicated machines with
>> better network; another on a US-based cloud provider, matching our
>> us-east GitLab master location - before XDC starts, so during XDC we
>> could get those as dedicated runners for a fork of the Mesa project
>> and try to gather some stats and profiles on how they actually
>> perform.
>>
>> Hopefully if it goes well then we should be able to switch them on
>> almost immediately.
>
> Unfortunately we're still externally stalled on this. I'd suggest that
> we give Juan owner access to the Mesa project in GitLab, so he can
> connect the existing Igalia runners to our project. These runners
> already do the execution for the gitlab.com project, so should be more
> than enough to run ours until we can get the external runners.

That sounds great to me.

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