From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:31:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] ci: rename linux-TEST-vars job
Message-ID: <askI1DGldZx8ElIN@szeder.dev>
In-Reply-To: <20261009-pks-ci-housekeeping-v2-5-6863d58ef691@pks.im>

On Fri, Oct 09, 2026 at 01:32:02PM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> The "linux-TEST-vars" job exercises Git with a bunch of non-default
> options enabled. The name of that job makes you want to cry though due
> to the weird upper-casing

Yeah, it's an eyesore indeed.

> and because it doesn't really tell you what it
> even intends to do.

It intends to set a bunch of GIT_TEST_* variables, and since it has
test vars in its name, I'd say that it does a decent job at conveying
its intentions.

> Rename the job to "linux-exotic" instead.

Seeing "linux-exotic", I would think of a job running tests on an
exotic Linux distro, or on an exotic platform...  but it wouldn't
occur to me that it intends to set a bunch of GIT_TEST_* variables,
simply because there is nothing in its name to indicate that.

I think this patch makes things worse.