Re: [RFC PATCH] travis.yml: Drop the default softmmu builds

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 9/16/20 3:16 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 08:54:03PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> The total runtime of all Travis jobs is very long and we are testing
>> all softmmu targets in the gitlab-CI already - so we can speed up the
>> Travis testing a little bit by not testing the softmmu targets here
>> anymore.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  Well, ok, we do not test all the softmmu targets on gitlab-CI with
>>  that same ancient version of Ubuntu ... but do we still care about
>>  testing all softmmut targets on Ubuntu Xenial at all? ... at least
>>  according to our support policy, we do not care about Xenial anymore.
> 
> Yep, we explicitly don't care about Xenial. Even if we did care about
> Xenial, we could put such a job on GitLab CI instead.
> 
> IIUC, the main unique feature wrt Travis vs GitLab are potential for
> non-x86 hardware testing, and functional use of KVM. So if the job
> isn't using one of the unique Travis features, we should cull it
> from Travis and GitLab if the job is still appicable.

Agreed.

Acked-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
(Sorry for missing this patch)

> 
>>  .travis.yml | 14 --------------
>>  1 file changed, 14 deletions(-)
> 
> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
>