Re: Build the docs if there are changes in docs and don't run other tasks if the changes are only in docs

On 2023-10-06 Fr 10:07, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> writes:
>> I don't have a good sense of what you are trying to optimize for. If
>> it's the mainline build-on-every-commit type, then I wonder how many
>> commits would really be affected by this. Like, how many commits touch
>> only a README file. If it's for things like the cfbot, then I think the
>> time-triggered builds would be more frequent than new patch versions, so
>> I don't know if these kinds of optimizations would affect anything.
> As a quick cross-check, I searched our commit log to see how many
> README-only commits there were so far this year. I found 11 since
> January. (Several were triggered by the latest round of pgindent
> code and process changes, so maybe this is more than typical.)
>
> Not sure what that tells us about the value of changing the CI
> logic, but it does seem like it could be worth the one-liner
> change needed to teach buildfarm animals to ignore READMEs.
>
> - trigger_exclude => qr[^doc/|\.po$],
> + trigger_exclude => qr[^doc/|/README$|\.po$],
>
>

I've put that in the sample config file for the next release.

cheers

andrew

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