Yes, on codeberg I've enabled CI only where it's complicated to run it locally. But where a simple "make test" can easily run locally I haven't enabled it because, would it really add anything?
Il giorno ven 20 feb 2026 alle ore 17:31 Andrey Rakhmatullin <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 11:23:09AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > >But as you say, for some people the arguments they make against the > >use of "AI" (whatever the hell that means) is about the consequences, > >either real or imagined or projected, that they think the technology > >will have. > > > >And the problem here is that it's still early days, and some of the > >initial estimates about (for example) water usage of AI queries seem > >to have been half-baked, or at least, highly disputed. For example, > >instead of a 16 ounce of bottled water, there are other estimates that > >put it at 45 mililiters, or even 0.26 milliliters. One of the reasons > >behind the wide disparity is about how to account for the cost of > >training the LLM. That's a one-time cost, and as the number of > >queries go up, that cost will get amortized and go down significantly. > >It's also the case that if you believe that the LLM is going to be > >trained *anyway*, the water savings of foregoing the use of the LLM > >for code reviews, or cherry-picking of a patch, or even vibe-coding is > >probably going to be in the mililiter range as opposed to the entire > >bottle of water range. > > > >I think people also tend to under-estimate how much water gets used > >when creating their pair of jeans (estimates range from 4,000 liters > >to 10,000 liters), or how much water they use when taking their daily > >showers, or how much CO2 they produce when travelling to conferences > >or visiting their families. (OMG! An Open Source maintainer is > >travelling all over the world to go to conferences! Let's ban the use > >of their software in Debian!! *That* will solve the global warming > >crisis....) > > Another interesting comparison is resources spent on CI. So far I see that > both OSS and commercial development adopts more and more CI and QA tools, > spending more and more CPU cycles on running them during the development. > That, of course, is true for Debian too. > > -- > WBR, wRAR -- Salvo Tomaselli I difensori della morale tradizionale sono raramente persone di cuore. Si è tentati di pensare che essi si servano della morale come di legittimo sfogo al loro desiderio di fare del male agli altri. -- Bertrand Russell, Perché non sono cristiano. 1957 http://ltworf.github.io/
