[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Gentoo CI news: pkgcheck is now running truly parallel

[Benda Xu <heroxbd@gentoo.org>]

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Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> writes:

> Just a quick note: thanks to hard work of radhermit, the newest release
> of pkgcheck features internal parallelization of checks.  While it's not
> perfect and there's still room for improvement (I mean, it could run
> even faster!), it's a major step forward.
>
> This means that I've finally retired that ugly hack that split
> categories into multiple groups and ran them in parallel.  This means
> that CI is no longer bound by the longest category (hello, media-libs/)
> and can utilize all 32 cores instead of ~14.
>
> This also means that if you're planning to run tree-wide scans with
> pkgcheck, you no longer have to employ huge hacks to make them faster. 
> You just run it normally!  In your face, repoman!
>
> Once again, thanks to radhermit.  His work on pkgcheck is astonishing,
> and it's becoming a great tool for developers.

A big round of applause to radhermit for the better QA tool!

Thank you to all who contributed.

Benda

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