Acknowledgement of CI instability

[Bryan Richter]

On the topic of Macs: I'm back from vacation now, and I've done the thing
that makes the four other Mac runners available again. (Deleting a spurious
route that perennially reappears on the gateway's routing table, and
restarting the gitlab-runner services that don't revive properly after the
nightly reboot.)

On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 at 02:57, Moritz Angermann <moritz.angermann at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As I’ve now arrived in Seoul and have my Mac’s back, I can bring two more
> M1 Mac’s back online today. However they are hooked up on a serviced
> apartment internet which might not be the fastest.
>
> Best,
>  Moritz
>
> On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 at 11:36 PM, Sam Derbyshire <sam.derbyshire at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The GHC team would like to acknowledge some ongoing CI instabilities in
>> the GHC project:
>>
>>   - regular failures of the i386 job, possibly related to the bump to
>> debian 12
>> <https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/commit/203830065b81fe29003c1640a354f11661ffc604>
>> (although the job still failed occasionally before this),
>>   - flakiness of the MultiLayerModulesDefsGhciReload test causing the
>> fedora33-release job to fail,
>>   - lack of availability of darwin runners, causing aarch64-darwin and
>> x86_64-darwin jobs to time out.
>>
>> These issues are currently causing a string of marge batch failures,
>> holding up several MRs.
>>
>> We are currently short on resources for addressing problems with CI, so
>> please bear with us while we sort the situation out. In the meantime, feel
>> free to let us know of any other CI issues that are impacting your work on
>> GHC.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Sam
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