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Re: Serious doubts about Gitlab CI
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Philippe Mathieu-Daudé |
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Re: Serious doubts about Gitlab CI |
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Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:50:36 +0100 |
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On 3/18/21 10:33 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 09:29:32PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> For some (unclear) reason I got my free tier Gitlab account renewed and
>> lost the privilege for users opening account before the quota limit.
>>
>> I pushed a single branch to my namespace repo to trigger a pipeline.
>> 1h later I was surprised to see the pipeline was stuck, having completed
>> 99 jobs of 119. Looking closer there is a red comment on top of the
>> pipeline:
>>
>> philmd has exceeded its pipeline minutes quota. Unless you buy
>> additional pipeline minutes, no new jobs or pipelines in its projects
>> will run. [Buy more Pipelines minutes]
>>
>> So I exhausted my 400 monthly minutes credit.
>>
>> From this FAQ:
>> https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/faq-consumption-cicd/#managing-your-cicd-minutes-usage
>>
>> Q. What happens if I hit the CI/CD Minutes allotted limit and forget to
>> purchase additional CI/CD Minutes?
>>
>> A. You will not be able to run new jobs until you purchase additional
>> CI/CD Minutes, or until the next month when you receive your monthly
>> allotted CI/CD Minutes.
>>
>> Q. Will I be notified before I hit my limit on CI/CD Minutes?
>>
>> A. You will receive notification banners in-app when your group has less
>> than 30%, 5% or exceeded your total allotted CI/CD minutes.
>>
>> I indeed received 3 warnings in 7 minutes.
>>
>> Now I'm having serious doubts about Gitlab usefulness for the QEMU
>> community...
>
> Per the discussions in the related Forum postings about CI limites, the
> 400 minute limit is still only intended to apply to projects that are
> marked as private. Public projects are not even being tracked for
> accounting, let alone have a limit enforced. They also said they want
> to make sure they don't impact ability of users to contribute to OSS
> projects hosted on GitLab that require use of CI.
>
> It feels like what you hit here is fallout from your account accidentally
> getting blocked, rather than something which is hitting every contributor
> to QEMU. Did they restore projects as private perhaps ?
Yes my repository was restored as private and I had to switch it to
public. I'll try to blew everything (after backing it up) and recreate
it as public from start, and see if I get the unlimited minutes back.
Thanks,
Phil.