On 02/08/2020 12:01 PM, Luca Toscano wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Travis is able to read commit messages and skip the CI workflow if the
> "[skip ci]" magic sequence is added somewhere. I keep forgetting about
> it too, but it would be nice if we could start using it to avoid using
> CI resources/workers when not needed (like docs changes, entries in
> STATUS, etc..). I didn't find a way to instruct Travis to avoid
> triggering a build if only certain file types are committed, so the
> only solution for the moment is to manually add the aforementioned
> sequence :(
>
> It is not a big deal to trigger builds even for docs etc.., but the
> ASF resources/workers are limited (and shared among projects IIUC) so
> I am only suggesting to be good neighbors :) If this is totally insane
> or unacceptable I'll back off and stop vouching for it I promise!
>
Thanks for pointing this out, but I forget this as well in many cases :-).
The only one here who seems to remember this always is IMHO Joe. Maybe
he has some tips how we can get better here.
Regards
Rüdiger
