Re: Golang team Salsa CI runner and documentation

[Shengjing Zhu <zhsj@debian.org>]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 8:31 PM Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I never understood what
> the 'test_the_archive' job does or what it helps with.  All failures I
> have ever encountered are cought by the standard Salsa pipeline (and it
> catches many other mistakes).  Does 'test_the_archive' test for anything
> that the normal Salsa pipeline would not catch?  I never understood
> that.

The normal salsa CI is for QA for the package itself.
'test_the_archive' is something like ratt, but designed with cache and
efficiency (well, currently broken and half implemented). But they are
two different things.

The normal salsa CI is good for "go programs", but I'm not convinced
it's good for the large amount of "go libraries", which are just based
on the standard template from dh-make-golang.

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Shengjing Zhu