From: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:12:51 GMT
Subject: Re: repo.eclipse.org outage breaking all our linux CI jobs
Message-ID: <aAzp49aUREpSsCrZ@ArchLinux>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqikmsuv2e.fsf@gitster.g>

On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 08:20:25AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I want to know whether we should use the "cache" mechanism of CI for
> > these third-party softwares? I somehow feel strange that we would
> > download these softwares in every CI.
> 
> It also feels wasteful to me that the CI jobs need to do a full
> install-dependencies.sh over and over, instead of running it once
> (per platform type), dumping the state, and let all the other jobs
> on the same platform type to restart from that state ;-).

That's right. I'll investigate how to implement this.