Re: [PATCH] ci: enable EXPENSIVE for contributor builds

[Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>]

On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 05:29:01PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
> 
> > So with this change we now run the tests for all "official" branches,
> > and on pull requests. Which raises the question: are there any events
> > that happen regularly that are excluded by this? Because if not I think
> > it might be sensible to just enable this unconditionally, also because
> > that would make jobs on GitLab CI run expensive tests, as well.
> 
> The simplicity certainly is tempting.
> 
> We could instead do the "let's enable only on linux-test-vars" kind
> of "optimization", which is on the other side of the extreme, but
> that is only valid if the kind of bugs that can be revealed only by
> EXPENSIVE tests, which may not be caught by others, is expected to
> be pretty much platform or configuration agnostic.  I somehow doubt
> that it is the case.

Yeah, it's probably not.

> In any case, I think spending on more machine cycles is certainly
> cheaper than human resources for things like this.

Agreed.

Patrick