On CI

[Ben Gamari]

Moritz Angermann <moritz.angermann at gmail.com> writes:

> At this point I believe we have ample Linux build capacity. Darwin looks
> pretty good as well the ~4 M1s we have should in principle also be able to
> build x86_64-darwin at acceptable speeds. Although on Big Sur only.
>
> The aarch64-Linux story is a bit constraint by powerful and fast CI
> machines but probabaly bearable for the time being. I doubt anyone really
> looks at those jobs anyway as they are permitted to fail.

For the record, I look at this once in a while to make sure that they
haven't broken (and usually pick off one or two failures in the
process).

> If aarch64 would become a bottle neck, I’d be inclined to just disable
> them. With the NCG soon this will likely become much more bearable as
> wel, even though we might want to run the nightly llvm builds.
>
> To be frank, I don’t see 9.2 happening in two weeks with the current CI.
>
I'm not sure what you mean. Is this in reference to your own 9.2-slated
work or the release as a whole?

Cheers,

- Ben
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