Hi all, Everyone has probably noticed that getting anything merged is a real effort at the moment. The main problem is that CI takes in the region of 5-7 hours and then spuriously fails at the end. After 5-7 hours you have to rebase and run CI again and so on. Therefore I propose to run just these four jobs on every MR: validate-x86_64-linux-deb9 validate-x86_64-linux-deb8-hadrian validate-x86_64-windows validate-x86_64-darwin The reasoning is as follows: validate-x86_64-linux-deb9 validate-x86_64-linux-deb8-hadrian These run first and are reliable and finish within an hour. Then we have lots of less reliable, lower priority jobs. Two windows jobs which take forever to run. validate-x86_64-windows validate-x86_64-windows-hadrian One darwin job validate-x86_64-darwin Many more linux jobs validate-x86_64-linux-deb9-unreg validate-x86_64-linux-deb9-integer-simple validate-x86_64-linux-fedora27 validate-x86_64-linux-deb9-llvm validate-x86_64-linux-deb8 validate-i386-linux-deb9 validate-aarch64-linux-deb9 So I don't argue that these are important to test but at the moment they produce too much friction on every commit through a combination of lack of resources and taking too long. Further to this, we really don't need to test fedora27, deb9 and deb8 for every build. When was the last time we broke one of these platforms but not the other, it's rare! So the concrete proposal is to slim back the per commit validation to four jobs. validate-x86_64-linux-deb9 validate-x86_64-linux-deb8-hadrian validate-x86_64-windows validate-x86_64-darwin which will test on the three major platforms. All the other flavours should be run once the commit reaches master. Thoughts? Cheers, Matt