[libvirt PATCH 0/4] ci: reduce number of jobs in the pipeline

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 10:06:16AM -0400, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> Come June 1st (aka very very soon) GitLab will reduce the
> CI minutes quota available from 2000 to 400 for public
> projects.
> 
> The wallclock minutes for CI are the quota divided by
> a cost factor currently 0.008. IOW, after June 1st
> our allowance reduces from 250,000 wallclock minutes
> to 50,000.
> 
> While I had intended that we join the OSS program, I'm
> unhappy with the financial liability the T&Cs require
> us to agree to for tha
> 
> Usage stats show we're currently consuming 70-80,000
> minutes a month, so we need to cut our usage by at
> least 30%.
> 
> The main libvirt project is responsible for the vast
> majority of usage, so is the biggest quick win, but
> we need to economise across all our repos.
> 
> With this series, we increase the number of jobs in
> the pipeline from 82 to 100, but we mark a great many
> of them as manual jobs, so they never run unless a
> user explicitly triggers them.
> 
> So we have only 54 jobs executing instead of the
> original 82. The remaining 46 jobs are optional.
> This is a decent win in usage, but we probably need
> to cut a little more later to give us breathing space

I should have mentioned this is dependant on

  https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt-ci/-/merge_requests/276

without that, instead of getting manual jobs, the jobs disappear
entirely.

With regards,
Daniel
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