Retire Fedora 29 / OpenSUSE 15.0 from CI?

[William Brown]

> On 12 Mar 2020, at 13:17, Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical <samba-technical at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> G'Day Andreas and the list,
> 
> It bothers me a little that for every Samba change we make we spin up
> 37 builds on 37 VMs.  It feels a little excessive, and while CI is
> awesome when it saves us all time we should also use the earth and
> Samba Team's resources carefully.  (Even jobs aimed at the 'free' CI
> can be run on our servers if GitLab.com's servers are busy, and the
> planet pays either way). 
> 
> Therefore I wondered if we should also stop running CI on Fedora 29 and
> OpenSUSE 15.0, both of which are now it is EOL upstream?
> 
> Both went EOL in Nov/Dec 2019.
> 
> In the future I think we should set policy to only CI on (some, subject
> to other constraints) supported distributions. 
> 
> What do folks think?

This sounds like a 100% reasonable policy to only run CI on active/supported distributions. :) 

> 
> Andrew Bartlett
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—
Sincerely,

William Brown

Senior Software Engineer, 389 Directory Server
SUSE Labs