Hi, On 25-07-2023 16:16, Michael Biebl wrote:
apparently, we in Debian struggle to find good opportunities where to spend our money.
For ci.d.n, the issue is not money, but the required work to integrate it into the infrastructure. We need volunteers (or pay people to do the work), but unless they can and want to figure out everything from source [1], the bottleneck remains that the current volunteers would need to help those people understand the setup and guide them coming up with good solutions.
I think support for qemu runners, i.e. supporting isolation-machine in autopkgtest on both debci and salsa ci would be an excellent opportunity.
Please note that we wouldn't need this (initially) on all architectures. As long as tests run consistently, some architectures could support it and some not. Even more tuned, if we only had some workers on some architectures supporting this, we could list (manually or better) the tests that would need to be tested there explicitly somehow. All this doesn't exist yet.
One step that has recently been made in debci, thanks Antonio for maintaining that, is that workers nodes should now be able to support multiple backends. No publicly available work has been done yet to utilize that.
Paul [1] https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/debian-ci-config/
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