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[Manu]

On 21 May 2018 at 09:22, Jonathan Marler via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Monday, 21 May 2018 at 04:46:15 UTC, Manu wrote:
>>
>> This CI situation with the DMD/druntime repos is not okay.
>> It takes ages... **hours** sometimes, for CI to complete.
>> It's all this 'auto-tester' one, which seems to lock up on the last few
>> tests.
>>
>> This makes DMD is a rather unenjoyable project to contribute to.
>> I had a sudden burst of inspiration, but it's very rapidly wearing off.
>
>
> It might take hours for CI to complete, but it can take weeks or months for
> someone to review your code...so the CI time doesn't really seem to matter
> for myself.  That is unless you're trying to use the CI in your modify/test
> development cycle.  However, that's should be solvable by testing locally in
> most cases.

I use CI to test the platforms I don't build locally. That's natural
for cross-platform development.