On Thursday, June 4, 2026 7:43:48 AM Mountain Standard Time Ben Hutchings wrote: > 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.
I think it just represents that some software is this big and requires this much build time. Regarding custom runners, I would recommend the following wiki, which I mostly authored: https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa/Doc/CustomRunners It allows you to use much longer Salsa CI timeouts, and also to run Salsa CI on more powerful hardware. -- Soren Stoutner [email protected]
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