Re: CI and test improvements

Hi,

On 2022-10-01 19:58:01 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> One other thing is that your -m32 changes caused the linux/meson task to
> take an additional 3+ minutes (total ~8).  That's no issue, except that
> the Warnings task depends on the linux/mason task, and itself can take
> up to 15 minutes.

> So those two potentially take as long as the windows task.
> I suggested that CompileWarnings could instead "Depend on: Freebsd",
> which currently takes 6-7min (and could take 4-5min if given more CPUs).

I am wondering if we should instead introduce a new "quickcheck" task that
just compiles and runs maybe one test and have *all* other tests depend on
that.  Wasting a precious available windows instance to just fail to build or
immediately fail during tests doesn't really make sense.

Greetings,

Andres Freund