Re: Is anybody using .cirrus.yml?

> On Wed, Nov 04, 2026 at 11:57:52AM +0200, Tuomas Ahola wrote:
>> Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > On Mon, Nov 2, 2026 at 11:41 PM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> wrote:
>> > 
>> > > Anyway, if nobody runs it anymore we should remove it. But let's wait a
>> > > few days for Carlo to answer in case he still does have a usecase for
>> > > it before we send a patch to drop it.
>> > 
>> > Thanks, but there is no reason to keep that file around AFAIK.
>> > 
>> > Carlo
>> 
>> Thanks both.  May I have your acks please?
>
> I think it would help if you sent this as a separate patch. Otherwise,
> this patch here is going to be very hard to discover for anybody who
> isn't reading this thread.
>
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>> Subject: [PATCH] CI: delete defunct Cirrus CI configuration
>
> s/CI:/ci:/
>
>> Since b5a9d7afcd (CI: add FreeBSD CI support via Cirrus-CI,
>> 2019-12-20), .cirrus.yml has powered Git's VM-based FreeBSD CI.
>> 
>> However, with the shutdown of Cirrus CI on 2026-06-01, there
>> don't seem to be any drop-in solutions available to support our
>> usecase---while there exist tools in general to run Cirrus pipelines
>
> The three dashes are a bit funny, but okay.
>
>> locally, managing FreeBSD VMs doesn't appear to be covered.
>> 
>> That renders .cirrus.yml completely nonfunctional.  Delete it.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Tuomas Ahola <taahol@utu.fi>
>
> Other than that this looks good to me. As said though, might make sense
> to send this via a separate thread so that it becomes disocverable.