Re: repo.eclipse.org outage breaking all our linux CI jobs

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 25, 2025, 15:20 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqikmsuv2e.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <aAui8hrhm1qAxGcU@ArchLinux>

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 ;-).