Re: [PATCH] .gitlab-ci.d/cirrus: Remove the netbsd and openbsd jobs

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 at 12:38, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> During the past months, the netbsd and openbsd jobs in the Cirrus-CI
> were broken most of the time - the setup to run a BSD in KVM on Cirrus-CI
> from gitlab via the cirrus-run script was very fragile, and since the
> jobs were not run by default, it used to bitrot very fast.
>
> Now Cirrus-CI also introduce a limit on the amount of free CI minutes
> that you get there, so it is not appealing at all anymore to run
> these BSDs in this setup - it's better to run the checks locally via
> "make vm-build-openbsd" and "make vm-build-netbsd" instead. Thus let's
> remove these CI jobs now.

So what's the plan to keep BSD CI coverage? This seems
like a step backwards towards "the person handling the
pullreq merges has to do some local private ad-hoc testing
too" :-(

thanks
-- PMM