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Re:The End of CI by charcircuit on Sunday July 03, 2022 @03:01PM (#31970080)
The extra step is that once the change is accepted the process of rebasing it or merging it into master is done by a bot that checks if it would break master before preceding to do it.

My issue with this approach is that it becomes tricky to scale since you can only have one job running at a time. Allowing master to potentially break scales better because you can run a job for each commit on master which hasn't been evaluated. Technically you could make that approach work by instead of rebasing onto master rebasing onto the last commit that is being tested, but this adds extra complexity which I don't think standard tooling can easily handle.

Re:The End of CI by viraptor on Sunday July 03, 2022 @05:05PM (#31971029)
> you can only have one job running at a time

https://zuul-ci.org/ and some other systems solve it by optimistic merges. If there's already a merge job running, the next one assumes that will succeed. And tests on merged master + first change + itself. If anything breaks, the optimistic merges are dropped from the queue and everything starts from the second chance only. Openstack uses it and it works pretty well if the merges typically don't fail.