+1,
this will be the best suggestion.
we can try adding a manual trigger for drafts if needed, still need to check if possible.

e.

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Eli Mesika <emesika@redhat.com> wrote:


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barak Korren" <bkorren@redhat.com>
> To: "Amit Aviram" <aaviram@redhat.com>
> Cc: "infra" <infra@ovirt.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 5:16:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Actively triggering of CI jobs
>
> > I was thinking, maybe it would be better if we will explicitly require to
> > run the CI jobs when we push patches.. then only when the developer will
> > need the job's feedback it will be activated. no redundant jobs will run,
> > and we will wait much less for the jobs to finish when we will actually
> > need
> > them.

Why not simply submit your patches as a Draft until the point you want CI to run on them, then you can simply publish them ...
This is the way I am using and it's simple ...

> >
> It seems to me that it will me too easy to forget to run the CI this way.
>
> There is another way though - To make the jobs do a lot less work.
> Most anything has to do what what actually happens in CI resides in
> the project`s automation directory now days (see [1]).  If you want to
> make CI smarter so it will not do things it shouldn't be doing, all
> you need to do is customize the automation scripts to be smarter and
> run only the needed tests for the files that were changed by the
> patch.
>
> [1]: http://www.ovirt.org/CI/Build_and_test_standards
>
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