[QGIS-Developer] Github actions analysis

[Alessandro Pasotti]

Sorry, in my previous email I wrote "we would need 4.5 of these machines"
while I meant 3.5 machines.

On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> During the last PSC meeting we talked briefly about how to solve the
> problem that we have with the Github CI limitations, one of the possible
> solutions that we discussed was to start migrating part of the CI to
> self-hosted runners.
>
> I've just made an attempt to understand the hardware requirements that we
> would need and I have collected some statistics from our Github account,
> summarized here for the period of the last 30 days:
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16-tiSLndm-ISxRFgZcE-Ewytr8cwLj00gdYs1iBsz58/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Considering that the standard public runner on Github runs on a 4 CPU + 16
> GB RAM machine intel arch, the rough conclusion is that we would need 4.5
> of these machines to handle the actual workload, please note that this a
> very rough estimation and does not take into account that we probably have
> peaking hours and we'd need more power if we don't want the jobs to sit in
> a queue for too long.
>
> Anyway, it's a start.
>
> Another thing to consider is that we could possibly cut some CI workflows
> (e.g. mingw64, is that useful?) or move some to a daily cronjob (ogc?).
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> --
> Alessandro Pasotti
> QCooperative:  www.qcooperative.net
> ItOpen:   www.itopen.it
>


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Alessandro Pasotti
QCooperative:  www.qcooperative.net
ItOpen:   www.itopen.it
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