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by ayufan
3381 days ago
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Hi janciska, Thanks for writing that comment and making us aware of that case. I'm very sorry that it did that long to get reviewed and merged. The number of issues and merge requests that pass our hands is just crazy and sometimes it happens that some of them are oversight and not properly scheduled. Having people to be persistent, like you, makes them finally to be merged and be part of the product. Thank you for doing that! From our side, we will try our best to make this process to be more efficient. Kamil, CI/CD Lead at GitLab |
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One point may not have been clear-- this isn't just a matter of a single bugfix being available to the userbase sooner rather than later. Rather, it is that multiple iterations through a development cycle were missed. From my rough recollection:
1. There was a problem setting up an OSX guest to work with virtualbox runner on OSX with passwords. We worked around this using pubkey-based auth between guest and host.
2. There was also a timeout issue mentioned on the tracker for which Sam found the relevant code and suggested (but did not create) a fix.
3. Sam seemed to think a snapshot-reuse approach was too complex and likely to hang or fail. I didn't agree and was trying to explore ways in which they could run reliably as it cut CI time in half for my use case.
4. For uploading artifacts, the OSX guest's gitlab-runner binary had the wrong name requiring the user to manually create a symlink with the correct name. (I think this is fixed in 9.0, but not sure since I still have the symlink there and it's still working.)
At the time my CI builds (and probably Sam's) weren't working at all, so we both ate the cost of learning how the CI build system worked in order to debug it. If there had been feedback saying that his MR was the right (or wrong) approach I would have been happy to apply my knowledge gained at the time to the related problems mentioned above in order to debug and eventually fix them.
But now that knowledge is gone. The cost for me to regain it outweighs the benefits of small improvements to what is atm a working if imperfect system.
Edit: formatting