Excessive tests in Ruqola / dependencies not built as part of the Craft caches

[laurent Montel]

Le jeudi 16 juillet 2026, 14:38:57 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Vlad Zahorodnii a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> On 7/16/26 3:00 PM, laurent Montel wrote:
> > Le jeudi 16 juillet 2026, 13:35:05 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Ben Cooksley a écrit :
> >> Hi Laurent, all,
> > Hi,
> >
> >> Over the past week or two Sysadmin has received a number of complaints
> >> regarding a lack of CI builder availability, primarily from those who work
> >> on Plasma. Investigation has revealed that Ruqola appears to use a
> >> disproportionately high amount of CI time compared to the size of the
> >> project and it's activity.
> >>
> >> This appears to be driven by the fact that Ruqola has a large number of
> >> tests that do not take very long to execute (700 or so tests, yet done in 6
> >> minutes - with many of these being less than 1 second to run). Given that
> >> every single one of these unit tests needs to have automoc / compiler /
> >> linker run on it i'd suggest that similar tests be merged into the same
> >> compilation unit (you can run the individual tests, but keep similar tests
> >> together in the same unit test).
> > In ruqola each autotest depends against a specific class.
> > So merging them in one autotest seems not logical.
> > It's the same idea that merging autotests from kio in one autotest.
> >
> > After that I am not against to execute autotests only on linux-qt6-next
> > It's the main target. but I need to know how to told to CI to exclude other platforms.
> 
> If you're looking for a way to run tests only on a specific platform, 
> there is `run-tests-on: []` option in `.kde-ci.yml`. If you're looking 
> for a way to also disable building those tests, I'm not sure.

ok => we can exclude all autotests from windows/freebsd
=> we will reduce timeout.

We don't have a environment variable which informs that we are on CI ?
=> I can exclude building on CI + specific platform.

ok I can add a 
Options:
 cmake-options: "-DDISABLE_AUTOTEST=TRUE"

in ruqola code in CMakeLists.txt
if(WIN32 AND APPLE AND DISABLE_AUTOTEST)
   set(BUILD_TESTING FALSE)
endif()
I think that cmake can test freebsd too.

=> we will reduce building autotests.