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

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>]

On 1/29/20 8:34 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 29/01/2020 08.27, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> On 1/29/20 8:20 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> OK now I understand better your comment :)
>>
>>>
>>>> Anyway, most of the jobs run on x86_64. So perhaps mark only the non-x86
>>>> ones?
>>>
>>> Sounds like a good compromise to me!
>>
>> I'd rather use one style, rather ARCH explicit on all, or not used at all.
> 
> Then I'd vote to drop it (if I've got a vote here at all ;-)), hoping
> that Travis fixes their HTML for that column, soon...

Fine.

I opened issue https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/10503 which 
got closed, then I got lost in their forum. I'll simply hope instead.