<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 5:47 AM Volker Krause <<a href="mailto:vkrause@kde.org">vkrause@kde.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Freitag, 13. Februar 2026 16:42:03 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit Sune <br>
Vuorela wrote:<br>
> On 2026-02-13, Harald Sitter <<a href="mailto:sitter@kde.org" target="_blank">sitter@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> > On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 12:37 PM Ben Cooksley <<a href="mailto:bcooksley@kde.org" target="_blank">bcooksley@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> >> Resource utilisation wise, i've not looked into whether there has been a<br>
> >> significant bump in the number of jobs, but over the past year some<br>
> >> additional CD support has been added so that indicates some trouble<br>
> >> there.> <br>
> > Going off on a tangent: if the resources aren't sufficient for the<br>
> > development of our flagship products (ruqola is not one, nor is<br>
> > messagelib, but also I don't know what either do without looking them<br>
> > up so maybe they are crucial to something 🤷♂️) then we need to put<br>
> > more resources up.<br>
> <br>
> ruqola is a chat client for rocket.chat whatever that is. It seems that<br>
> a linux build takes 10 minutes so I'm a bit surprised that it shows up.<br>
> <br>
> Messagelib is quite in the heart of our email offerings. A linux build<br>
> seems to take 4-5 minutes, so I'm also a bit surprised that that shows<br>
> up here.<br>
<br>
Right, messagelib is essentially KMail. Build time is only part of the problem <br>
there, it's quite test-heavy as all the email crypto stuff is in there.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The per job stats for messagelib:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> name | time_used | job_count </span><br>-----------------------+-----------------+-----------
<br> windows_qt610 | 24:52:33.347276 | 73
<br> suse_tumbleweed_qt610 | 18:28:10.854189 | 91
<br> suse_tumbleweed_qt611 | 18:13:52.270202 | 91
<br> freebsd150_qt610 | 18:08:18.798915 | 73
<br> cppcheck | 02:39:29.341629 | 76
<br> pre-commit | 01:40:32.695585 | 54
<br> json-validation | 00:20:55.701217 | 83
<br> clang_format | 00:18:01.056173 | 56
<br> xml | 00:05:28.430049 | 27
<br> yaml | 00:05:25.533611 | 27<br>
<br></span></div><div>Having a quick look through seems like messagelib has some flaky tests, leading to developers hitting retry unnecessarily on jobs, particularly for suse_qt611?</div><div><br></div><div>Windows also has a couple of tests that timeout, leading to those jobs taking longer than they should by about 6 minutes per run, which adds up fast when you run 73 times (about 7 of the 25 hours above are wasted waiting for a timeout).</div><div>Of the 85 hours spent by messagelib on CI - 8% of them were on three tests on Windows that timed out.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Regards,<br>
Volker</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Ben </div></div></div>