Re: Serious doubts about Gitlab CI

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>]

On 3/18/21 10:50 AM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 3/18/21 10:33 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 09:29:32PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> For some (unclear) reason I got my free tier Gitlab account renewed and
>>> lost the privilege for users opening account before the quota limit.
>>>
>>> I pushed a single branch to my namespace repo to trigger a pipeline.
>>> 1h later I was surprised to see the pipeline was stuck, having completed
>>> 99 jobs of 119. Looking closer there is a red comment on top of the
>>> pipeline:
>>>
>>>  philmd has exceeded its pipeline minutes quota. Unless you buy
>>>  additional pipeline minutes, no new jobs or pipelines in its projects
>>>  will run. [Buy more Pipelines minutes]
>>>
>>> So I exhausted my 400 monthly minutes credit.
>>>
>>> From this FAQ:
>>> https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/faq-consumption-cicd/#managing-your-cicd-minutes-usage
>>>
>>> Q. What happens if I hit the CI/CD Minutes allotted limit and forget to
>>> purchase additional CI/CD Minutes?
>>>
>>> A. You will not be able to run new jobs until you purchase additional
>>> CI/CD Minutes, or until the next month when you receive your monthly
>>> allotted CI/CD Minutes.
>>>
>>> Q. Will I be notified before I hit my limit on CI/CD Minutes?
>>>
>>> A. You will receive notification banners in-app when your group has less
>>> than 30%, 5% or exceeded your total allotted CI/CD minutes.
>>>
>>> I indeed received 3 warnings in 7 minutes.
>>>
>>> Now I'm having serious doubts about Gitlab usefulness for the QEMU
>>> community...
>>
>> Per the discussions in the related Forum postings about CI limites, the
>> 400 minute limit is still only intended to apply to projects that are
>> marked as private.  Public projects are not even being tracked for
>> accounting, let alone have a limit enforced. They also said they want
>> to make sure they don't impact ability of users to contribute to OSS
>> projects hosted on GitLab that require use of CI.
>>
>> It feels like what you hit here is fallout from your account accidentally
>> getting blocked, rather than something which is hitting every contributor
>> to QEMU. Did they restore projects as private perhaps ?
> 
> Yes my repository was restored as private and I had to switch it to
> public. I'll try to blew everything (after backing it up) and recreate
> it as public from start, and see if I get the unlimited minutes back.

You were right, I forked the project again as public and can run CI
pipelines. I note this is different that my previous account, I am
restricted at 15 jobs at a time, so this is slower.

A also added '##.gl-alert-danger.gl-alert' rule to uBlock Origin plugin
to remove the annoying big red panel saying I'm out of minutes and have
to buy more.

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