[edk2-devel] please let's disable the ECC plugin in CI, in its current form

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 12/8/20 3:04 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> in my opinion, the ECC plugin in CI has not been productive or helpful.
> The errors it reports are not convincing, and exceptions are difficult
> to add, or even express. I request that we disable ECC globally for
> edk2, or at least make it controllable through a github PR flag (not
> through CI metafile changes in edk2).
> 
> (Metafile changes could be an acceptable way of controlling ECC if (a)
> they didn't have to go through review, (b) if technically such changes
> would take effect in CI even if they were included in the patch series
> subject to the CI run. Then a maintainer could evaluate and
> *immediately* suppress such ECC issues by adding the exceptions as a
> prepended patch, and force-pushing the updated branch to the same open
> PR. But this would remain much inferior to simply disabling ECC, or
> controlling it through a PR label.)
> 

+1

-- 
Ard.


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