Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> writes: > Il ven 17 feb 2023, 19:47 Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> ha scritto: > >> On 17/02/2023 16.59, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: >> > On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 04:55:49PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> .... >> > The cost/benefit tradeoff of dropping the platforms entirely >> > is not obviously favourable when we don't have clear demand >> > to bump the min versions of native packages, and the cost to >> > users stuck on these platforms to build their own toolchain >> > or libraries is very high. >> >> There's another urgent point which I completely forget to mention in my >> patch description (not sure how I managed that, since it's bugging me >> quite >> badly in the past weeks): We're struggling heavily with CI minutes. > > > The only viable solution for CI minutes is going to be private runners, > it's not easy to cut 30% of the jobs. > > We're using less than half of our Azure sponsorship budget, and could also > find other sources; either Azure Kubernetes or AWS Fargate are pretty cheap > for running CI because unlike VM instances you pay for just the time that > CI is running (at least with Azure you still have VMs but they scale out > dynamically).
To anyone arguing for support of yet another host architecture / target architecture / configuration / whatever: sponsoring its CI would demonstrate seriousness :) > The complicated part is setting up the kubernetes executor for > gitlab-runner, but we'll find someone. :)
