Re: [PATCH] .travis.yml: Add description to each job

From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: "Wainer dos Santos Moschetta" <wainersm@redhat.com>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Cc: "Fam Zheng" <fam@euphon.net>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>,
	"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] .travis.yml: Add description to each job
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 08:20:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <411567d3-2a32-eaf8-7689-3649aad4267c@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <266be40c-6f5c-ad76-d326-bb174ebf047f@redhat.com>

On 28/01/2020 14.33, Wainer dos Santos Moschetta wrote:
> 
> On 1/28/20 11:18 AM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 1:55 PM Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>> wrote:
>>> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:
>>>> On 25/01/2020 19.31, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>>>> The NAME variable can be used to describe nicely a job (see [*]).
>>>>> As we currently have 32 jobs, use it. This helps for quickly
>>>>> finding a particular job.
>>>>>
>>>>>    before: https://travis-ci.org/qemu/qemu/builds/639887646
>>>>>    after: https://travis-ci.org/philmd/qemu/builds/641795043
>>>> Very good idea, correlating a job in the GUI to an entry in the yml
>>>> file
>>>> was really a pain, so far.
>>>>
>>>>> [*]
>>>>> https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/customizing-the-build/#naming-jobs-within-matrices
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>   .travis.yml | 101
>>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>>>>>   1 file changed, 67 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
>>>>> index 6c1038a0f1..d68e35a2c5 100644
>>>>> --- a/.travis.yml
>>>>> +++ b/.travis.yml
>>>>> @@ -94,24 +94,28 @@ after_script:
>>>>>
>>>>>   matrix:
>>>>>     include:
>>>>> -    - env:
>>>>> +    - name: "[x86] GCC static (user)"
>>>> Could you please drop the [x86] and other architectures from the names?
>>>> Travis already lists the build architecture in the job status page, so
>>>> this information is redundant.
>>> Hmm for me the Travis page mis-renders the architecture (on firefox) so
>>> I do find the arch in the text fairly handy.
>> This might be a font problem, I can't see the architecture on neither
>> Firefox nor Chrome:
>>
>> https://pasteboard.co/IS3O358.png
> 
> 
> It is the partially hidden column between the job number and the penguin
> (or apple if MacOS).
> 
> Funny, I can see the arch on Philippe's dashboard
> (https://travis-ci.org/philmd/qemu) but it disappears on my own
> (https://travis-ci.org/wainersm/qemu).

I've never had problems here, for me the column shows up correctly
everywhere. It looks like this:

 http://people.redhat.com/~thuth/travis.png

> Anyway, most of the jobs run on x86_64. So perhaps mark only the non-x86
> ones?

Sounds like a good compromise to me!

 Thomas