Salsa CI overload

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Hi.

(I wasn't able to find another mailing list for this.  I found a bit
of discussion on debian-devel about one specific overload incident.)

Since sid opened, people have naturally been hard at work.  Great!

But I notice that Salsa CI is now frequently very overloaded.  Even
when it's not half a day behind (!), I often see that my package is
able to run only about one job at a time.  I think this is slowing a
lot of us down quite considerably.

It seems to me that we (Debian) could probably acquire more computing
resources if we wanted.  Perhaps some of our jobs are wasteful, but I
think that overall, adding capacity would be well justified.

I haven't seen any discussion of this anywhere.  Is work ongoing to
try to add more capacity to Salsa CI?  What are the key difficulties?

If we knew what kind of expertise/assistance/input/sponsorship was
needed, I feel we could probably find it within our project.

Thanks,
Ian.

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