Re: Multi-OS Emacs buildbot?

[Michael Albinus]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>> In theory you could install a gitlab runner on each of your VMs and
>> emba could push the compile jobs out to them.
>
> Yeah, that's more work than I'm willing to do.

Maybe somebody will help you? I, for example, am already thinking
about GitLab runners. But I didn't start to implement.

> This reminds me, though -- why isn't EMBA sending out "you broke the
> build" messages to people?  That'd be quite useful, wouldn't it?

Because nobody has implemented it? And it isn't trivial. Since every
commit triggers the whole machinery on Emba, only the *first* commit
which has broken something should send the message.

Imagine, I have broken Tramp (not unlikely, you know). So I will get a
message, and everybody who commits afterwards, would also get such
message, until I have fixed this. Not so nice.

AFAIK, GitLab has no memory. It doesn't remember, whether the previous
job has failed.

And think about several breakages, for example you have broken Gnus in
parallel (this *is* unlikely). GitLab sees only that the job returns
with error, it doesn't know the reason.

Best regards, Michael.