Re: [PULL 00/33] Abstract ArchCPU

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 at 12:12, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> A big issue IMHO is that the pain/impact hits the wrong people.
> It is most seriously impacts & disrupts Peter when merging, and
> less impacts the subsystem maintainers, and even less the
> original authors.
>
> If we consider a alternative world where we used merge requests
> for subsystem maintainers just to send pull requests. The subsystem
> maintainer would open a MR and it would be their responsibility
> to get a green pipeline. Peter (or the person approving pulls for
> merge at the time) shouldn't even have to consider a MR until it
> has got a green pipeline. That would put the primary impact of
> unreliable CI onto the subsystem maintainers, blocking their work
> from being considered for merge. This creates a direct incentive
> on the subsystem maintainers to contribute to ensuring reliable
> CI, instead of considering it somebody else's problem.

CI fails merge isn't really a big deal IME -- I just bounce
the merge request. The real problem and timesink (especially of
CI hours) is the intermittents.

-- PMM