From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 06 May 2025 13:17:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitlab-ci: always run MSVC-based Meson job
Message-ID: <142f6110-b26d-4495-9b68-7c438b17f86b@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <aBnm4fP1RYgoIEc4@pks.im>

On 06/05/2025 11:39, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 11:44:08AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>>
>>     Or perhaps we pick a
>>     single representative job and only after it passes start other
>>     jobs?  None of the tweaks along these lines I can think of feel
>>     satisfying to me.
> 
> Wouldn't that only mean that the pipeline takes even longer from start
> to finish? Even if the representative job succeeds it doesn't tell me
> anything about whether there are leaks, or whether it works on Windows,
> or on macOS. But given that I am on Linux, I especially care about jobs
> that use a platform different than my own and always wait for them to
> finish before sending out a patch series to the mailing list.

I did wonder if it is possible to make a failing job kill/cancel all the 
other jobs but I think we have a few flaky tests that occasionally 
randomly fail which complicates things.

Best Wishes

Phillip


> Patrick
>