Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4...@amsat.org> writes:
> Due to a design problem and misunderstanding between the Avocado > framework and QEMU, Avocado is fetching many asset artifacts it > shouldn't be fetching, exhausting the jobs CI timeout. > > Since Avocado artifacts are cached, this is not an issue with old > forks, which already have populated the cache and do not need to > download new artifacts to run the tests. > > However this is very confusing to new contributors who start to > fork the project and keep having failing CI pipelines. > > As a temporary kludge, add the QEMU_CI_AVOCADO_TESTING variable > to allow old forks to keep running the Avocado tests, while still > allowing new forks to use the mainstream set of CI tests. > > Keep the tests enabled by default on the mainstream namespace > which is old enough to have a populated cache, hoping we will > keep this cache long enough until the Avocado/QEMU design issue > is fixed. > > Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4...@amsat.org> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> -- Alex Bennée
